{"id":105,"date":"2017-02-17T16:15:23","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T16:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/?page_id=105"},"modified":"2020-02-24T13:08:13","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T18:08:13","slug":"2011-a-slight-diversion","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/?page_id=105","title":{"rendered":"2011 A Slight Diversion"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>In 2011 I was planning to continue my cruise from the Maritimes and head towards Florida and ultimately the Caribbean. However, life’s plans change and in January, 2011 I was offered the opportunity to work for 3 months (February – April) for my company on a project in Kuwait.<\/p>\n

I thought this would be a great winter adventure and the added $$$ to our family funds and our cruising kitty would not hurt either – so off I went.<\/p>\n

To make a long story short, 3 months turned into 6 months & that was the end of my cruising plans for 2011. So what the heck,\u00a06 months turned into 9 months – with a couple of trips added afterwards for good measure! All in all I ended up spending about 11 months in Kuwait in 2011.<\/p>\n

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Wally & Gary – Kuwait February 2011<\/p><\/div>\n

I was very sad to give up my cruising plans for the year but my time in Kuwait turned out to be a wonderful alternative (aside from having to be away from my family for so long). I got the chance to work again for the best boss I have had in my entire career, made a lot of great friends, and, learned about and experienced a very different culture from what I was used to.<\/p>\n

You can read more about my (non-sailing) adventures in Kuwait in my blog archives – from February to December 2011.<\/p>\n

Click Here To Go To The First Blog Entry For Kuwait<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 2011 I was planning to continue my cruise from the Maritimes and head towards Florida and ultimately the Caribbean. However, life’s plans change and in January, 2011 I was offered the opportunity to work for 3 months (February – April) for my company on a project in Kuwait. I thought this would be a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":98,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-105","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P8ppZJ-1H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12721,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/105\/revisions\/12721"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}