{"id":2572,"date":"2011-07-18T01:02:30","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T08:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2011\/07\/18\/back-in-the-us-of-a\/"},"modified":"2011-07-18T21:28:58","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T04:28:58","slug":"back-in-the-us-of-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2011\/07\/back-in-the-us-of-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Back in the US of A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/sdim2419-copy.jpg\" title=\"Back in the US of A\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/sdim2419-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Back in the US of A\" width=\"236\" height=\"153\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/sdim2424-copy.jpg\" title=\"South Bay\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/sdim2424-copy.jpg\" alt=\"South Bay\" width=\"340\" height=\"153\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/sdim2424-copy.gif\" title=\"South Bay\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/sdim2424-copy.gif\" alt=\"South Bay\" width=\"336\" height=\"153\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/sdim2419-copy.jpg\" title=\"Back in the US of A\"> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Would love to be canvassing the SF Bay Area, seeking out Sunday late night light shots on our layover, but a thin slice of Burlingame will have to do.\u00a0 That&#8217;s actually the moon at 800 iso along with a number of flights on final approach to SF.<\/p>\n<p>From Kuala Lumpur to Hong Kong we flew over some incredibly beautiful resort islands off the coast of Malaysia in the South China Sea, then over a pretty broad swath of Viet Nam with its hundreds of thousands of rice patties in the south, and then a great circle around Hong Kong showing us all sides of it.\u00a0 It&#8217;s about 4.5 hours from KL to HK, then another 12.5 hours from HK to SF.\u00a0 The cell phone cam just didn&#8217;t do any of it justice.<\/p>\n<p>Transferring between airlines in HK is pretty cool &#8211; they have a transfer lounge with reps from every airline.\u00a0 You just give them your bag check claims, they go retrieve your bags from the inbound flight, and then re-check them on the new outbound flight with the new carrier to destination.\u00a0 The nice thing is you don&#8217;t have to stand in line and go through immigration.\u00a0 You just do a quick security screen and they release you to the outbound concourse to be on your way.\u00a0 It&#8217;s definitely a better method from the traveler&#8217;s perspective than what they make you do at west coast airports which involves shlepping your bags and going through immigration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would love to be canvassing the SF Bay Area, seeking out Sunday late night light shots on our layover, but a thin slice of Burlingame will have to do.\u00a0 That&#8217;s actually the moon at 800 iso along with a number of flights on final approach to SF. From Kuala Lumpur to Hong Kong we flew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-travel","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}