{"id":133,"date":"2018-09-09T02:37:26","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T00:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ontrek.com\/blog\/?p=133"},"modified":"2020-02-29T09:52:41","modified_gmt":"2020-02-29T07:52:41","slug":"africa-preparation-9th-to-13th-sept-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ontrek.com\/blog\/africa\/africa-preparation-9th-to-13th-sept-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"AFRICA- Preparation &#8211; 9th to 13th Sept 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>9th &#8211; Under a week\nto go and I&#8217;m still not ready. The main bag has stuff thrown over it, the\ncamera bag is empty. Still need cash, and an international license. Several\ntasks around the house to do. Worst of all, I&#8217;m still not comfortable with the\ncameras regarding changing functions quickly. Sigh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12th &#8211; Finally\npacked! The weight of the cameras and lenses, 12kg, was a problem for hand\nbaggage, so I will carry a camera and lens on a strap. The large bag is fine at\n14kg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drama over the\nMango Durban-Joburg flight booked in Feb via eDreams. I discovered only one bag\nwas allowed. Attempts to amend it and later cancel, were not possible. I then\nasked Flight Centre to&nbsp; re-book, which resulted in the same issue! More\nenquiries reveal the extra bag is paid for on arrival. I hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9th &#8211; Under a week to go and I&#8217;m still not ready. The main bag has stuff thrown over it, the camera bag is empty. Still need cash, and an international license. Several tasks around the house to do. Worst of all, I&#8217;m still not comfortable with the cameras regarding changing functions quickly. Sigh. 12th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-kenya-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ontrek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ontrek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ontrek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ontrek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ontrek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.ontrek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2174,"href":"http:\/\/www.ontrek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/2174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ontrek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ontrek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ontrek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}