{"id":80,"date":"2018-05-09T11:13:04","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T11:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/?p=80"},"modified":"2020-07-19T03:08:01","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T03:08:01","slug":"how-did-i-get-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/?p=80","title":{"rendered":"How Did I Get Here?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life in Santa Barbara was good until it wasn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I lived in the mandatory evacuation zones for the Thomas fires,<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-100\" src=\"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_0293-e1526317400164-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_0293-e1526317400164-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_0293-e1526317400164.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>and the &#8220;Debris flow&#8221; (mudslide).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-99\" src=\"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/FullSizeRender-2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/FullSizeRender-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/FullSizeRender-2.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And my Tom died here.<br \/>\nToo much for me. Not because I can&#8217;t take it but because I don&#8217;t have to.<\/p>\n<p>Time to fly.<\/p>\n<p>Downsize. Donate and sell stuff. Why pay for a large storage unit to house insignificant items? Rent a small unit for sentimental goods.<\/p>\n<p>My plan of no plan, is to get on a plane to any destination that has the most standby seats available, preferably abroad.<\/p>\n<p>I land in London and after asking, no, begging the Universe for help (I&#8217;m into that now), feel guided to keep stepping to the Aer Lingus ticket counter.<br \/>\nThe middle-aged, pixie-cut lady working the counter asks for my ticket.<br \/>\n&#8220;I don&#8217;t have one. Any suggestions?&#8221;<br \/>\nIntrigued, she prompts me, &#8220;What are you in the mood fer?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Somewhere pretty with no natural disasters.&#8221;<br \/>\nA truly pregnant pause. &#8220;Cork,&#8221; she said. &#8220;West Cork, Kinsale.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_97\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-97\" src=\"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/FullSizeRender-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/FullSizeRender-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/FullSizeRender-1.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-97\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kinsale<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And basically, that is how I got here.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Universe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life in Santa Barbara was good until it wasn&#8217;t. &nbsp; I lived in the mandatory evacuation zones for the Thomas fires, &nbsp; and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,6],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ireland-uk-europe-2018","tag-county-cork","tag-kinsale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2217,"href":"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/2217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}