{"id":2514,"date":"2024-08-04T14:58:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T14:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/?p=2514"},"modified":"2024-09-08T15:13:27","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T15:13:27","slug":"america-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/?p=2514","title":{"rendered":"America 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We had a week back in the UK after our trip and then we [ minus Amelia who stayed home to have some alone time, and look after the dog ] headed for the West Coast of the US of A.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We flew via Dublin and thought it would be wiser to have a pint of Guinness rather than crossing into US territory immediately.  This was a huge mistake!  After our pint of Guinness we headed for US security to see an enormous queue, followed by a second huge queue followed up by a third ridiculously long queue.  We had to do a VISA check, followed by security and then passport control.  By the time we got through all three phases of checks our flight was showing as being closed.  Absolutely convinced we&#8217;d missed our flight we ran through the terminal to the very final gate and found people still queuing to get on.  We&#8217;d made it.  Just.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We flew into SeaTac and Jason came to pick us up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/PXL_20240802_193613327.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/PXL_20240802_193613327.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/PXL_20240802_193613327.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/PXL_20240802_193613327-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/PXL_20240802_193613327-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">We went out on Kerry&#8217;s boat on the Puget Sound.  Emma and Nicole had a drink ir two in the sunshine,<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/PXL_20240802_215712331.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/PXL_20240802_215712331.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/PXL_20240802_215712331.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/PXL_20240802_215712331-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/PXL_20240802_215712331-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jason and Kerry&#8217;s boat&#8230;with a can of Stella<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/PXL_20240802_233112881.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/PXL_20240802_233112881.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/PXL_20240802_233112881.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/PXL_20240802_233112881-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/PXL_20240802_233112881-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The gang with Kerry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A few days after the outing on Kerry&#8217;s boat we found ourselves on Clear Lake, WA at the Stoner&#8217;s lakeside cabin.  We&#8217;re beginning to think all American&#8217;s have a boat, except Jason &#8211; but that&#8217;s a whole different tale.  This is where Oli learned to wakeboard and wakesurf or something.  Jason and I learned how to drink beers and wave a flag when somebody is in the water.  Emma and Nicole learned how to sit on a paddleboard with a glass of wine.  It&#8217;s safe to say we all learned a lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/PXL_20240805_005939759.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/PXL_20240805_005939759.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2518\" style=\"width:674px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/PXL_20240805_005939759.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/PXL_20240805_005939759-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/PXL_20240805_005939759-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">In the background is Mount Raneer.  A really rather large mountain!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We did lots, lots more whilst we were in the PNW but after a week of hanging out with the Coope&#8217;s it was time for us to go walkabout to California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a week back in the UK after our trip and then we [ minus Amelia who stayed home to have some alone time, and look after the dog ] headed for the West Coast of the US of A. We flew via Dublin and thought it would be wiser to have a pint &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/?p=2514\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;America 2024&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","category-oliver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2519,"href":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514\/revisions\/2519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}