{"id":31,"date":"2006-04-11T06:12:02","date_gmt":"2006-04-11T14:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=31"},"modified":"2007-12-04T09:03:35","modified_gmt":"2007-12-04T17:03:35","slug":"back-in-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/11\/back-in-the-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Back in the USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nOK, so it doesn&#8217;t quite have the same ring as &#8220;Back in the USSR,&#8221; but I digress. After 17,000 miles in the air last week, some 200 customers to visit (in big groups, not individually, though 15 or so were individual visits,) and 3 distinct cultures (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/cia\/publications\/factbook\/geos\/is.html\">Israel<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/cia\/publications\/factbook\/geos\/sw.html\">Sweden<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/cia\/publications\/factbook\/geos\/up.html\">Ukraine<\/a>,) I find myself back home.<\/p>\n<p>\nIt never fails to amaze me how quickly we can transit cultures and countries. Imagine it was a mere century ago &#8211; the trip I completed would have taken a minimum of 2 years. Now it&#8217;s able to be completed in a week.<\/p>\n<p>\nJust 20 years ago, I wouldn&#8217;t have been able to keep touch like I was able to on this trip. Mobile phone, VOIP from the laptop, email, websites, blogs &#8211; it&#8217;s really mind boggling when we think about how different the experience of traveling is now.<\/p>\n<p>\nFor instance, in Amsterdam&#8217;s airport, I was able to get the latest traffic information at home which saved me an hour due to the closure of my route home. That&#8217;s pretty amazing stuff. The participation age is just beginning, it&#8217;s fun to imagine what we might be able to do 10 years from now&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so it doesn&#8217;t quite have the same ring as &#8220;Back in the USSR,&#8221; but I digress. After 17,000 miles in the air last week, some 200 customers to visit (in big groups, not individually, though 15 or so were individual visits,) and 3 distinct cultures (Israel, Sweden, and Ukraine,) I find myself back home. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}