{"id":30686,"date":"2019-02-18T03:00:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T08:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=30686"},"modified":"2019-02-18T03:00:20","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T08:00:20","slug":"february-18-2019-a-dark-and-stormy-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=30686","title":{"rendered":"February 18. 2019 – A Dark and Stormy Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s raining in Hong Kong. Blustery, too. There’s a rolling fog that obscures buildings and the sea and makes for a very grey day. It’s not the best day to sightsee but we’re down to less than 24 hours before a long-haul flight back to the States… so we don our rain coats and try and angle the umbrella into the wind to prevent its inversion.<\/p>\n

Try as we might, we get pretty soaked. So these photos are a little water logged… and there’s a lot of stuff you may not see because of the fog. But know that there is a “there” there.<\/p>\n

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Here are a couple of better ones… at least I hope they’re better.<\/p>\n

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FYI — it costs 2.70 HKD to take the ferry… that’s approximately 34 cents in US currency.\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Say what you will, despite being an Ugly American and potentially creating international incidents with my rebellious ways, I’m still way better at diplomacy than Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n

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In the Central district, we decided there was no place like “Home”… Home. Dumpling<\/em> [sic] that is.<\/p>\n

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So today was a typical Hong Kong day for us — a bit of sightseeing, a lot of food.\u00a0 Ya know, what you should be doing in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow, we fly.\u00a0 And fly.\u00a0 And fly some more.\u00a0 And thanks to time zones and tail winds, we will arrive before we leave.<\/p>\n

It may not be a Star Trek transporter, but it’s something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s raining in Hong Kong. Blustery, too. There’s a rolling fog that obscures buildings and the sea and makes for a very grey day. It’s not the best day to sightsee but we’re down to less than 24 hours before a long-haul flight back to the States… so we don our rain coats and try […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}