{"id":36,"date":"2015-04-03T06:23:05","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T06:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/?p=36"},"modified":"2015-04-03T22:20:48","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T22:20:48","slug":"an-ode-to-two-giant-suitcases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"An ode to two giant suitcases"},"content":{"rendered":"

I made it! After two wonderfully smooth, painfully long flights, I walked out of customs to the sight of my lovely husband. Before that in what was a first for me and\u00a0hopefully a last for anyone, my row of three on my flight to LA ended up just having me in the aisle and a big, but not giant man in the center seat. I assumed that\u00a0the man would move into the window seat, giving us both more room. I even gently suggested that he move over, but he just chuckled and stayed put. Perhaps it was all\u00a0worth it if the good karma I built up by not freaking out over such a weirdo move resulted in my wonderfully small middle seat companion on the much longer flight to\u00a0Melbourne.<\/p>\n

Jon has had me walking all over Melbourne and St. Kilda since I got here. I am not sure I could find my way around much by myself yet, but I’ll get there eventually.\u00a0More observations to come once I feel less upside down! I’ll leave you with…<\/p>\n

\"Giant<\/a>
suitcases (before)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u00a0An ode to two giant suitcases<\/strong><\/p>\n

two suitcases, both red, both giant
\ncarrying all my stuff
\nmaking me totally reliant
\nso they better be up to snuff<\/p>\n

weighing in at 50 and 50.5 pounds, right at the limit
\nI sighed with relief
\nand did not wait another minute
\nfor the scale to change its mind and give me grief<\/p>\n

\"giant
suitcases (after)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

up up and away I flew on to LA
\ngiving little thought to my worldly possessions
\nI flew on to Melbourne Australia to stay
\nmy stuff safe and snug in two giant suitcases<\/p>\n

one last moment to worry at baggage claim
\nas bag after bag went by
\nI started to think of who I should blame
\nif my two giant suitcases never arrived<\/p>\n

I glanced down at my phone
\ntrying to figure out wifi access
\nand when I glanced up again, my bags now shone
\nlike the biggest reddest beacons of gladness<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I made it! After two wonderfully smooth, painfully long flights, I walked out of customs to the sight of my lovely husband. Before that in what was a first for me and\u00a0hopefully a last for anyone, my row of three on my flight to LA ended up just having me in the aisle and a … Continue reading An ode to two giant suitcases<\/span> →<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}