{"id":576,"date":"2022-08-03T11:43:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T11:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonsimmers.com\/words\/?p=576"},"modified":"2024-06-27T16:32:45","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T16:32:45","slug":"not-all-who-wander-are-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jonsimmers.com\/words\/2022\/08\/not-all-who-wander-are-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"Not All Who Wander Are Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In an earlier post<\/a>, I said I was doing a thing. I still am. Me being me, it needs a plan. The How, When & Where.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As per the above post, I am heading back to South East Asia for up to seven months, from later this month. Longest trip I have done in years – I was busy falling into a career with Morrisons since my last one – and to parts of the world I am familiar with. However with the changes wrought across the world due to the pandemic and its fallout, and from my little taster of the region back in May, I feel that going now will almost be like forging a new path not taken by others. It is also an opportunity to discover new places that I am yet to see across the region making it all very exciting!<\/p>\n

Looking at visiting the following countries (in order); Thailand (Bangkok to Lanta to North East), Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia (Peninsula), Singapore, Indonesia. With options on Taiwan, South Korea, Japan & China should their restrictions change while I am out in Asia – hell, I could extend my time out if needed. This would average three weeks in each country except Singapore (as while it’s great, I do not have the budget for 3 weeks in that city!) and Thailand (Looking at about 5-6 weeks).<\/p>\n

Three weeks would be enough to do the highlights and still find those gems off the old school banana pancake trail, however will require a combination of overnight trains (where possible) and short hop local flights to make it work, not quite the environmental message I want to put out there but hey ho.<\/p>\n

Let’s see how it goes when I get on the ground as even my trip back in May had a few changes on the go, mostly due to lockdowns\/catching Covid myself. Back in the day though this route was easily workable with time frames.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an earlier post, I said I was doing a thing. I still am. Me being me, it needs a plan. The How, When & Where.\u00a0 As per the above post, I am heading back to South East Asia for up to seven months, from later this month. Longest trip I have done in years […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,10],"tags":[140,14,128],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-travel","tag-plans","tag-south-east-asia","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jonsimmers.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jonsimmers.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jonsimmers.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jonsimmers.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jonsimmers.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/jonsimmers.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669,"href":"http:\/\/jonsimmers.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions\/669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jonsimmers.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jonsimmers.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jonsimmers.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}