{"id":252,"date":"2024-01-23T11:21:36","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T18:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myblogary.com\/?p=252"},"modified":"2024-01-24T01:03:09","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T08:03:09","slug":"weve-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myblogary.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/23\/weve-arrived\/","title":{"rendered":"We’ve Arrived!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The 11 hr 50 min flight from LA to Auckland wasn\u2019t so bad, thanks to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One 5 mg Ambien,
An Air NZ Skycouch,
One in-flight movie,
Half a rom-com,
2 NY Times Crossword Puzzles (Tuesdays only \ud83d\ude2b),
1.5 podcast episodes,
And an unhealthy amount of time staring at the flight map watching the plane\u2019s location over an interminable amount of water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are now waiting for our flight to Nelson, which is known as the \u201cTop of the South\u201d due to its location on the island in the Tasman Bay. It is there that we’ll begin our 2 \u00bd month journey of the South Island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Regional Flight to Nelson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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The 11 hr 50 min flight from LA to Auckland wasn\u2019t so bad, thanks to: One 5 mg Ambien, An Air NZ Skycouch, One in-flight movie, Half a rom-com, 2 NY Times Crossword Puzzles (Tuesdays only \ud83d\ude2b), 1.5 podcast episodes, And an unhealthy amount of time staring at the flight map watching the plane\u2019s location … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/myblogary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_4138-2-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1308&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13104,"url":"https:\/\/myblogary.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/22\/ka-kite-ano-ma-te-wa\/","url_meta":{"origin":252,"position":0},"title":"Ka Kite An\u014d M\u0101 Te W\u0101","author":"Victoria","date":"22 May 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"May 22 That\u2019s M\u0101ori for Goodbye. 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