{"id":27796,"date":"2013-03-24T01:41:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T06:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=27796"},"modified":"2013-03-26T13:14:41","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T18:14:41","slug":"the-sun-sets-on-this-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/the-sun-sets-on-this-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sun Sets On This Trip &#8211; Posted By Sarah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27800\" title=\"kellytoddbeach\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kellytoddbeach1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kellytoddbeach1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kellytoddbeach1-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kellytoddbeach1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After a very busy week in Whangarei, Todd and I were treated to a home-cooked meal and a walk on the beach yesterday evening.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Kelly Archer and his wife Joss have a lovely &#8220;batch&#8221; (beach house) in Waipu, about 40 km down the road from Circa. While we dug our bare feet into the sand and chatted about the week&#8217;s events, the sun eased down to the east, casting shadows and light all around.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27801\" title=\"shell\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/shell.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/shell.jpg 900w, https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/shell-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/shell-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27804\" title=\"beachwalk\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/beachwalk1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/beachwalk1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/beachwalk1-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/beachwalk1-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/beachwalk1-767x1024.jpg 767w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27805\" title=\"shadows\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/shadows.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/shadows.jpg 900w, https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/shadows-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/shadows-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27808\" title=\"view_batch\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/view_batch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/view_batch.jpg 900w, https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/view_batch-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/view_batch-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As the shadows lengthen and the sun follows its annual course to the north, so must we. A Boeing 777 awaits our boarding in Auckland in a few hours. Time to pack our gear and head back to Los Angeles and Seattle respectively. <em>Buffalo Nickel<\/em>&#8216;s owners are ready to put some hours on their engine; it&#8217;s time to recharge ours on a leisurely 13 hour flight. Then the next adventure awaits!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27811\" title=\"flag\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/flag.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/flag.jpg 900w, https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/flag-150x114.jpg 150w, https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/flag-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a very busy week in Whangarei, Todd and I were treated to a home-cooked meal and a walk on <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/the-sun-sets-on-this-trip\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":27800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dashew-blog","category-four"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27796"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27878,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27796\/revisions\/27878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}