{"id":5436,"date":"2011-11-28T09:03:43","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T17:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=5436"},"modified":"2011-11-28T09:03:43","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T17:03:43","slug":"wish-we-were-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/28\/img-news\/wish-we-were-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Wish We Were There"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November 28, 2011<\/p>\n<p><em>Once again, as is customary this time of year, IMG Operations Manager Tye Chapman is globetrotting hither and yon.\u00c2\u00a0 Here&#8217;s an update he sent this morning:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hello from Chiang Mai, Thailand! Just over a week into our trip, and we&#8217;re having a blast.\u00c2\u00a0 After a couple days in busy Bangkok we enjoyed two days at Patong beach and two more on Koh Phi Phi Island where we took a boat tour and spent some time in the tropical waters.\u00c2\u00a0 The last two days have been up north here in Chiang Mai.\u00c2\u00a0 Last night&#8217;s Sunday market was incredible!\u00c2\u00a0 Thousands of people convened to stroll, shop and eat. \u00c2\u00a0Today we took a tour of the area outside of town.\u00c2\u00a0 We rode an elephant in the jungle and floated down the Mae Wong river on bamboo rafts, not a bad day.\u00c2\u00a0 This evening we checked out the night bazaar.\u00c2\u00a0 Tomorrow we&#8217;ll rest up a bit and grab a famous Thai massage before catching the overnight train back to Bangkok.\u00c2\u00a0 From there it&#8217;s a few days in Cambodia, then home!<\/p>\n<p>All is well in SE Asia.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8211; Tye&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Have fun Tye, bring back souvenirs this time.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-5436 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMAG0318.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[5436]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMAG0318-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-5437\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-5437'>\n\t\t\t\tPatong beach, Thailand (Photo: Tye Chapman)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMAG0330.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[5436]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMAG0330-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-5438\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-5438'>\n\t\t\t\tKoh Phi Phi Island, Thailand (Photo: Tye Chapman)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 28, 2011 Once again, as is customary this time of year, IMG Operations Manager Tye Chapman is globetrotting hither and yon.\u00c2\u00a0 Here&#8217;s an update he sent this morning: &#8220;Hello from Chiang Mai, Thailand! Just over a week into our trip, and we&#8217;re having a blast.\u00c2\u00a0 After a couple days in busy Bangkok we enjoyed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-img-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5436"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5444,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5436\/revisions\/5444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}