{"id":3008,"date":"2020-02-10T02:22:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T07:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mackenziesontheroad.com\/?p=3008"},"modified":"2020-01-09T20:19:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T01:19:14","slug":"swinging-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mackenziesontheroad.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/10\/swinging-by\/","title":{"rendered":"Swinging By"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Today&#8217;s blog is a bit different. We asked Joyce, one of Darrin&#8217;s oldest friends, to write a guest blog. Joyce was one of the first people we told we were going to embark on our 2 year adventure and she has been following along on our journey since the beginning.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since I have been following On The Road with the Mackenzies each day, I never expected that their road would intersect with me in Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I saw, on the blog, (that I look forward to reading when it appears) that Darrin and Melissa were going into Mexico, but it sounded to me as if they would be going down the coast and not inland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One morning I got an email from Darrin asking where I am staying this winter in Mexico. He tells me where he is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, it\u2019s less than an hour away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We decide to rendezvous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have been rendezvousing for a number of days now and it is such fun to be with Darrin and Melissa \u2014 to watch how relaxed they are walking around and enjoying everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They are such good travelers, beyond good, one needs to make a new category for them.  They are loving, good natured, responsive and interested.  Great ambassadors for humans in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am so glad they were able to \u201cSwing\u201d by!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1986\" data-attachment-id=\"3011\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mackenziesontheroad.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/10\/swinging-by\/z-san-migel-de-allende-7\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mackenziesontheroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/z-San-Migel-de-Allende-7.jpg?fit=2000%2C1986&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2000,1986\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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We had a fabulous time and look forward to seeing you back home in Vermont this summer.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s blog is a bit different. We asked Joyce, one of Darrin&#8217;s oldest friends, to write a guest blog. Joyce was one of the first people we told we were going to embark on our 2 year adventure and she has been following along on our journey since the beginning. Since I have been following &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mackenziesontheroad.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/10\/swinging-by\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Swinging By&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[489],"tags":[442,494],"class_list":["post-3008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mexico","tag-mexico","tag-old-friends"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9ImxW-Mw","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mackenziesontheroad.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mackenziesontheroad.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mackenziesontheroad.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mackenziesontheroad.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mackenziesontheroad.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3008"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mackenziesontheroad.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3013,"href":"https:\/\/mackenziesontheroad.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008\/revisions\/3013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mackenziesontheroad.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mackenziesontheroad.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mackenziesontheroad.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}