{"id":47,"date":"2009-02-08T18:06:54","date_gmt":"2009-02-08T23:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timpeterson.org\/blog\/?p=47"},"modified":"2009-02-08T18:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-08T23:10:00","slug":"planning-for-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timpeterson.org\/blog\/2009\/02\/08\/planning-for-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning for Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last time I posted from the letter I sent out to request support for the Mexico trip. Things have been moving along:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We have our final team members: Harry, Oswaldo, Jessica, Kim, and I.<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;ve purchased our plane tickets, from Buffalo through Chicago to Morelia. The flight back from Mexico is 4 hours in the middle of the night &#8212; hopefully we can sleep through it.<\/li>\n<li>One of Kim&#8217;s relatives offered to let us park for free in Buffalo rather than paying $8 per day at the airport.<\/li>\n<li>Kim got her new passport, and Jessica and I rediscovered our lost passports. Now we can actually enter the country.<\/li>\n<li>Yesterday we got our Hepatitis A shots from a doctor who also serves IV&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/people.rit.edu\/eta6520\/\">Guyana missions trip<\/a>. As it turns out, he knows the Caldwells from long ago and has been to Mexico a number of times.<\/li>\n<li>So far we have about 20% of the money we&#8217;ll need. (You can help!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Interesting fact: We&#8217;re flying through four distinct time zone names. We&#8217;re leaving on Eastern Standard Time, and staying in Chicago and Mexico under Central Standard. Then in the US daylight savings time kicks in right around the time we&#8217;re taking off from Mexico, though they change at a different date within Mexico, so the time won&#8217;t change on the ground. While we&#8217;re over the Gulf of Mexico, it&#8217;s anybody&#8217;s guess what time it really is. When we land in Chicago it&#8217;ll be Central Daylight Time, and then we hop one more hour to Eastern Daylight. So, we&#8217;re gaining one hour on the way to Mexico, and losing two hours on the way home.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re leaving in four weeks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last time I posted from the letter I sent out to request support for the Mexico trip. Things have been moving along: We have our final team members: Harry, Oswaldo, Jessica, Kim, and I. We&#8217;ve purchased our plane tickets, from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timpeterson.org\/blog\/2009\/02\/08\/planning-for-mexico\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,4],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-iv","tag-mexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timpeterson.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timpeterson.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timpeterson.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timpeterson.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timpeterson.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.timpeterson.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/www.timpeterson.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timpeterson.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timpeterson.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timpeterson.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}