{"id":30870,"date":"2019-02-19T18:13:11","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T23:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=30870"},"modified":"2019-02-19T18:13:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T23:13:11","slug":"february-19-2019-a-look-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=30870","title":{"rendered":"February 19. 2019 – A Look Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first time I was in Hong Kong was in 1997, just months before the British handover back to the Chinese. I was on my way to a study abroad semester in Australia and I met up with my brother, who at the same time was studying in Japan.\u00a0 A family friend who originally hailed from HK showed us around – we ate like royalty, with tourist sight-seeing stops seemingly the necessary evil of detours before the next extravagant feast of dim sum, high tea, or Michelin reviewed must-eats.<\/p>\n

In 2014, I came back to run the Hong Kong marathon as part of my Road To… series<\/a> of races. I revisited a few of the places I’d gone before – Lantau Island’s giant Buddha, the Peak, etc. But I also went to new-to-me spots, including Hong Kong Disneyland.\u00a0 That trip marked the first time I visited a non-US Disney theme park.<\/p>\n

This year I came once more and did an amalgamation of my previous trips, a little from column A, a little from column B. And I brought my Mom.<\/p>\n

As I tap this out on the marginally delayed flight back to the US, I feel like the 2019 trip has been decently photo-blogged on this site.\u00a0 And yet, I thought it might be fun to put up a “then and now” companion piece on a few of the Hong Kong memories.<\/p>\n

To that end:<\/p>\n

Lantau Island: 1997 vs 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Peak: 1997 vs 2014 vs 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Note: The majority of the 1997 trip exists in a photo album — I’ll need to find that book the next time I’m home.<\/p>\n

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Hong Kong Disneyland: 2014 vs 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Hong Kong Marathon: 2014 vs 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The first time I was in Hong Kong was in 1997, just months before the British handover back to the Chinese. I was on my way to a study abroad semester in Australia and I met up with my brother, who at the same time was studying in Japan.\u00a0 A family friend who originally hailed […]<\/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-30870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30870","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=30870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}