{"id":2796,"date":"2007-08-21T03:56:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T08:56:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-27T21:28:40","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:28:40","slug":"preparing-for-africa-in-my-pocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2007\/08\/21\/preparing-for-africa-in-my-pocket\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing For Africa — In My Pocket"},"content":{"rendered":"

A week from now, I’ll be in the plane, somewhere over the Atlantic. \u00a0It’s finally getting real. \u00a0My laptop is whirring away, as I juggle some hard disk space to make a safety full image backup. \u00a0Of course, I’ll be taking a couple of portable hard drives with me, but it’s best to have lots of backups.<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n
I went over to REI to get a travel wallet. \u00a0I wanted one that had a little more space in it. \u00a0Not all countries have paper money the same size as dollar bills, and I ran into that problem on my Europe trips. \u00a0I may not be a book collector, but I have an interesting collection of foreign coins and bills. \u00a0The coins are the best. \u00a0I’ve got everything from wooden nickels to bus tokens, to those cute one pound coins from Great Britain. \u00a0I like the obsolete ones from France that have been replaced with the euros, and the windmills on the ones from Barbados.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
When I emptied out my old wallet, I took out a silver dollar I had kept there since 2001, when I bought one for every member of the family. \u00a0I teared up a bit, remembering all that has happened over the years, but it slipped into the new wallet and there it will stay. \u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A week from now, I’ll be in the plane, somewhere over the Atlantic. \u00a0It’s finally getting real. \u00a0My laptop is whirring away, as I juggle some hard disk space to make a safety full image backup. \u00a0Of course, I’ll be taking a couple of portable hard drives with me, but it’s best to have lots… Continue reading Preparing For Africa — In My Pocket<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-J6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2797,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796\/revisions\/2797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}