{"id":170,"date":"2013-01-18T08:43:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T08:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sv-ananda.com\/south-india-tour-approaching\/"},"modified":"2020-01-24T13:18:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T18:18:23","slug":"south-india-tour-approaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/?p=170","title":{"rendered":"South India Tour Approaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/knotsnplots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/South-India-Tour-Map-Routes.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11818\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/?attachment_id=11818\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/knotsnplots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/South-India-Tour-Map-Routes.jpg?fit=1024%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,640\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"South India Tour Map Routes\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/knotsnplots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/South-India-Tour-Map-Routes.jpg?fit=625%2C391&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11818 size-full\" title=\"Click on map to view large image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/knotsnplots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/South-India-Tour-Map-Routes.jpg?resize=625%2C391&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/knotsnplots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/South-India-Tour-Map-Routes.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/knotsnplots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/South-India-Tour-Map-Routes.jpg?resize=300%2C188&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/knotsnplots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/South-India-Tour-Map-Routes.jpg?resize=150%2C94&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/knotsnplots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/South-India-Tour-Map-Routes.jpg?resize=768%2C480&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/knotsnplots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/South-India-Tour-Map-Routes.jpg?resize=624%2C390&amp;ssl=1 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s hard to believe that I have been back in Kuwait for over 3 months. Catherine arrives in Kuwait on January 25th and we depart on the 27th for Kozhikode, India. Kozhikode is the home city of two work colleagues I have met while in Kuwait. By coincidence, my colleagues Jafar and Kabeer will be at home for a few days prior to when Catherine and I will be starting our tour so we decided to go to India a bit earlier than originally planned to visit with them and their families and see a bit more of that part of the country before heading off to Bangalore to join up with the rest of the organized tour group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">I made the above map using Google Maps. It shows the route that we will be following with our tour group. We depart from Bangalore on February 3 and end up in Chennai on February 18. Modes of transportation will range from motor coach to trains to house boats.<\/span><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div style=\"font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">I am hoping that I will be able to frequently find wifi service so I can post some notes and photos on the blog site.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Keep a watch out for us.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Cheers!<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Wally &amp; Catherine<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to believe that I have been back in Kuwait for over 3 months. Catherine arrives in Kuwait on January 25th and we depart on the 27th for Kozhikode, India. Kozhikode is the home city of two work colleagues I have met while in Kuwait. By coincidence, my colleagues Jafar and Kabeer will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2013-south-india"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ppZJ-2K","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11821,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/11821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}