{"id":14700,"date":"2024-04-27T12:48:40","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T19:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=14700"},"modified":"2024-04-27T15:09:23","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T22:09:23","slug":"welcome-to-tasmania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2024\/04\/27\/welcome-to-tasmania\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Tasmania"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today started at 4:30am in New Zealand (2:30am Tasmania) and involved saying a last goodbye to New Zealand before flying from Auckland to Sydney to Canberra to Hobart. The guy at the Qantas desk spent a while looking at my ticket, and when I asked if something was wrong he said “there’s got to be a more direct way to get you there, but I’m not finding it”. I told him that long ago when the ticket was booked it was less circuitous, but flights had been cancelled and thus my route to Tasmania had become a bit roundabout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From what I’ve seen flying into Tasmania, driving into Hobart, and walking around the city center, I might need to convince Audrey to move here permanently. It has a strong New Zealand vibe, but also wallabies (I haven’t seen them yet, but tomorrow’s adventure is finding Bruny Island’s white wallabies). My hotel for the night is a refurbished 1831 building with thick stone walls and heavy wooden beams, located a block from the water. Life has clearly treated me much better than I deserve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"North<\/p>\n

The approximate route I took around the North Island of New Zealand over the past three weeks.<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\"Self-Portrait,<\/p>\n

A happy man at the wharves in Hobart, Tasmania.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today started at 4:30am in New Zealand (2:30am Tasmania) and involved saying a last goodbye to New Zealand before flying from Auckland to Sydney to Canberra to Hobart. The guy at the Qantas desk spent a while looking at my ticket, and when I asked if something was wrong he said “there’s got to be … Continue reading “Welcome to Tasmania”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[76,78,77],"class_list":["post-14700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-2024-walkabout","tag-australia","tag-new-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14700"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14706,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14700\/revisions\/14706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}