{"id":191,"date":"2017-08-10T12:18:23","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T18:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thehallslonghaul.com\/?p=191"},"modified":"2017-09-27T10:19:40","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T16:19:40","slug":"where-to-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehallslonghaul.com\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"3.  First Steps?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where do you start when you want to pack up your life and hit the road?<\/p>\n<p>Do you sell the house, the vehicles and your belongings? \u00a0Do you find a renter or leave the house empty? \u00a0Do you move into a smaller home and just leave everything in it?<\/p>\n<p>What about jobs? Retire? Quit? Take a leave of absence?<\/p>\n<p>Friends? Family? Pets? What about them?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_195\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-195\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thehallslonghaul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Pillow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-195 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/thehallslonghaul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Pillow-e1503944273710-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thehallslonghaul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Pillow-e1503944273710-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thehallslonghaul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Pillow-e1503944273710-262x264.jpg 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-195\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My pillow!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>AND&#8230; can you realistically live out of a backpack for six to ten months&#8230; at OUR age? (We&#8217;re definitely not in our 20s anymore!). \u00a0Can we sleep in a different bed every few nights? \u00a0Can we cook in someone else&#8217;s kitchen with unfamiliar ingredients? Can we negotiate the different countries&#8217; cultures, traditions, taboos and languages? \u00a0Can we use transportation systems in a new country when we struggle to figure out the bus system in a Canadian city? \u00a0Most importantly &#8211; can I live without my pillow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where do you start when you want to pack up your life and hit the road? Do you sell the house, the vehicles and your belongings? \u00a0Do you find a renter or leave the house empty? \u00a0Do you move into a smaller home and just leave everything in it? What about jobs? Retire? Quit? Take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-beginning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehallslonghaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehallslonghaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehallslonghaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehallslonghaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehallslonghaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thehallslonghaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"https:\/\/thehallslonghaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehallslonghaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehallslonghaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehallslonghaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehallslonghaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}