{"id":472,"date":"2004-12-02T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2004\/12\/02\/concord-california-27\/"},"modified":"2011-01-21T15:21:21","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T23:21:21","slug":"concord-california-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2004\/12\/02\/concord-california-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Concord, California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The final details of the May 2006 <a href=\"\/journal\/2003\/05\/08\/quito-ecuador\/\">Galapagos<\/a> trip are being worked out with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galapagosconnection.net\/\">Thalia &amp; Greg<\/a>.  I&#8217;ve been collecting the names of people who have said they might want to come, but if you&#8217;re at all interested please <a href=\"mailto:ryan.holliday@gmail.com\">drop me an email<\/a> so that I can make sure I keep you in the loop.  Costs (not including the flight to Quito) will be in the $3000 range for a two week trip, although you&#8217;re welcome to stay longer.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galapaguide.com\/galapagos_diving_tours_wolf.htm\">Scuba diving<\/a> at Darwin and Wolf should also be a possibility.<\/li>\n<li>The apartment search is ongoing &#8212; hopefully I&#8217;ll have a place in the Bay Area soon, after which a road trip may be needed.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m not planning on working a regular job for a while.  There have been several ideas rattling around in my head for a few years that I&#8217;d like to play with, so it won&#8217;t be until after I fail miserably with those that I&#8217;ll start thinking of what to do next.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve started running again, but at the moment I&#8217;m moving about as fast as a 160 pound sack of crap.  Despite that I need to avenge <a href=\"http:\/\/www.active.com\/uploads_search.cfm?up_fname=&amp;up_lname=&amp;up_bib=5838&amp;upm_id=1162&amp;event_id=963335&amp;startrow=1&amp;header=blank&amp;orderby=up_lname\">my loss<\/a> in the San Diego marathon to that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.active.com\/uploads_search.cfm?up_fname=&amp;up_lname=blush&amp;up_bib=4773&amp;upm_id=1162&amp;event_id=963335&amp;startrow=1&amp;header=blank&amp;orderby=up_lname\">66 year old woman<\/a> &#8212; the next time I run a marathon there will be no old ladies crossing the line in front of me.  Old men, maybe &#8212; 26 miles is a long way to run, and those old dudes are wily little bastards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lastly, since this journal is slightly less boring when pictures are posted, here&#8217;s one from one of the <a href=\"\/journal\/2004\/10\/19\/gold-harbour-south-georgia-island-2\/\">rare sunny days<\/a> while on South Georgia:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/photos\/south_georgia\/highlights\/pages\/2004-10-C\/1478-gold-harbour-king-penguins_RJ.html#top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"King Penguins in Gold Harbour\" class=\"img-main\" height=\"400\" src=\"\/photos\/images\/2004-10-C\/1478-gold-harbour-king-penguins_RJ.jpg\" width=\"600\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">King Penguins in Gold Harbour<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest: The final details of the May 2006 Galapagos trip are being worked out with Thalia &amp; Greg. I&#8217;ve been collecting the names of people who have said they might want to come, but if you&#8217;re at all interested please drop me an email so that I can make sure I keep you in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2004\/12\/02\/concord-california-27\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Concord, California&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","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=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2545,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions\/2545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}