{"id":1,"date":"2010-02-07T17:41:11","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T17:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wanderlust\/?p=1"},"modified":"2010-03-09T16:29:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T16:29:39","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wanderlust.simid.cloud\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"Where to Start ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Well this the first post (kinda). We knuckled down and started planning our adventure on Sat 6th Feb 2010, but only decided on blogging about it a week later.. so you will have to imagine that this was <strong>actually<\/strong> written on 6\/7 Feb. &#8220;What adventure ?&#8221;,\u00a0 &#8220;What&#8217;s this all about ?&#8221;, &#8220;Who are you?&#8221;, &#8220;Are you insane?&#8221;&#8230;&#8230;. &#8220;I can hear you caring&#8221;<em> (thanks<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox.com\/house\/index1.htm\"><em> House MD<\/em><\/a><em>)<\/em>\u00a0 Well check out\u00a0<a href=\"about\">About Us<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wanderlust.simid.cloud\/?page_id=376\">Best Laid Plan<\/a>\u00a0pages above to answer some of those questions. If you are new to reading a blog (Mom, Dad etc), look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/wanderlust.simid.cloud\/?page_id=454\">Credits<\/a> page. If the pages I mention don&#8217;t work it&#8217;s because I haven&#8217;t done them yet !\u00a0So to the five\u00a0people who accidentally stumbled onto this page\u00a0and we hope to our family and friends, it&#8217;s&#8230;.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">On with the Show &#8211;\u00a0 87 Sleeps Go\u00a0\u00a0<\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_9\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wanderlust.simid.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSCN1108.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1]\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9 \" title=\"DSCN1108\" src=\"https:\/\/wanderlust.simid.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSCN1108-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wanderlust.simid.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSCN1108-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wanderlust.simid.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSCN1108-150x94.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wanderlust.simid.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSCN1108-700x440.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A BEEG wall map (socks shown for scale)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>First thing &#8211; hang a\u00a0BEEEG map and get some markers (done). Then get\u00a0lots of great ideas and inspiration (easy). Next find the\u00a0energy to do some basic planning (boring). V had a large collection of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lonelyplanet.com\">Lonely Planet<\/a> guide books and a few hundred random web links. I got back from SA last\u00a0Sunday so we decided that it&#8217;s now or never for the boring bits.\u00a0True adventure I\u00a0guess is having no plan at all, but we like plans, so we started with\u00a0some basics;\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What countries are we going through (more or less) ?<\/li>\n<li>What are the Visa Requirements ?<\/li>\n<li>How long will it take ?<\/li>\n<li>How much will it cost ?<\/li>\n<li>What gear do we need ?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Two hours on the web later and it turns out we are looking at 20 or so countries. The visa requirements seem simple with some exceptions &#8211; Russia, Mongolia and China we&#8217;ll get through a UK company called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.realrussia.co.uk\/\">Real Russia<\/a>, Vietnam we&#8217;ll need to send off to the embassy in London,\u00a0for Laos the information is sketchy and the rest seems you can get at border posts (we hope).\u00a0Estimated around \u00a31000 each for visas !\u00a0 (Vicki has promised to add an accurate &#8216;Budget&#8217; page as a resource).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We scribbled some estimated durations onto our wall map without too much detail. Pushing back our start date to 5 May will cause some problems (like trekking in Nepal during the monsoon &#8211; got to figure that one out), but it looks like we will be travelling until the end of the year or until the funds run out (whichever comes first).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Then the scary bit, costs! We found a few sites around giving estimations\u00a0for different countries&#8230;. Adding a randomly generated fudge factor we came up with an all inclusive average\u00a0of \u00a350\/person\/day for the duration of the trip. We\u00a0hope to publish accurate figures as we go providing a\u00a0resource for others. We&#8217;ll keep you posted, but an absence of posts means we ran out of cash in Borneo and can&#8217;t even afford 5 minutes in an Internet cafe. In this case we suggest you ignore this paragraph.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We are\u00a0both serious gear junkies. So the rest of the weekend was spent looking at gear online. Planning never really made it back onto the agenda once we started talking gear. We&#8217;ll have more for you on this one (a &#8216;Gear Page&#8217; soon), but we are looking at 8-10kg packs (around 30-35L). I think we are going to have to change our names from Vicki &amp; Simon to Fast &amp; Light !<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure the posts will get shorter and more interesting as we get into this &#8211; thanks for reading anyway !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well this the first post (kinda). We knuckled down and started planning our adventure on Sat 6th Feb 2010, but only decided on blogging about it a week later.. so you will have to imagine that this was actually written on 6\/7 Feb. &#8220;What adventure ?&#8221;,\u00a0 &#8220;What&#8217;s this all about ?&#8221;, &#8220;Who are you?&#8221;, &#8220;Are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"geo":{"latitude":52.666214,"longitude":-2.3729455,"description":"Shifnal, Shropshire, UK"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wanderlust.simid.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wanderlust.simid.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wanderlust.simid.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanderlust.simid.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanderlust.simid.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/wanderlust.simid.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612,"href":"https:\/\/wanderlust.simid.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wanderlust.simid.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanderlust.simid.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanderlust.simid.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}