{"id":110,"date":"2019-03-03T22:54:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T03:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpalumbo\/?p=110"},"modified":"2019-03-03T22:59:59","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T03:59:59","slug":"longest-bus-trip-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpalumbo\/2019\/03\/03\/longest-bus-trip-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Longest bus trip yet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today I went farther that I have to date guided by my trusty Google Maps ap. The destination was Johnsonville which is on the northwest side of Wellington, past Khandallah and my favorite name: Kaiwharawhara.  Being a little phonics challenged, I&#8217;m appreciative when the syllables repeat themselves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are a couple of things that I have noticed from my time in waiting rooms: No one wears white coats, the GPs &#8220;room&#8221; there own patients and the nurse consultation rooms are usually right off the waiting room. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The best thing about my bus ride today was the second practice that I visited was on the other end of the #1 bus route. A 51 minute straight shot to a lovely little beach neighborhood.  Bonus &#8211; it was a double decker bus.   Of course I had a picnic lunch and then my snack treat &#8211; a flat white and Anzac biscuit. During my snack break, I watched a procession of school kids heading for the beach with their hats and towels and teachers. It seems a bit chilly to me but there they go.  I&#8217;m starting to love my routine here. <div><br \/><\/div><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpalumbo\/files\/2019\/03\/kidsgoingtothebeach-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpalumbo\/files\/2019\/03\/kidsgoingtothebeach-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpalumbo\/files\/2019\/03\/kidsgoingtothebeach-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>School kids heading for the beach &#8211; all have hats on and it&#8217;s about 65 degrees!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpalumbo\/files\/2019\/03\/snackbreak-e1551671178546-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpalumbo\/files\/2019\/03\/snackbreak-e1551671178546-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpalumbo\/files\/2019\/03\/snackbreak-e1551671178546-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>A flat white and an Anzac biscuit while watching the school kids past by to go to the beach.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I went farther that I have to date guided by my trusty Google Maps ap. The destination was Johnsonville which is on the northwest side of Wellington, past Khandallah and my favorite name: Kaiwharawhara. Being a little phonics challenged, I&#8217;m appreciative when the syllables repeat themselves. Here are a couple of things that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5503,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpalumbo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpalumbo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpalumbo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpalumbo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5503"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpalumbo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpalumbo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpalumbo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpalumbo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpalumbo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpalumbo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}