{"id":75,"date":"2016-11-09T21:07:25","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T19:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benjamingaisser.wordpress.com\/?p=75"},"modified":"2016-11-09T21:07:25","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T19:07:25","slug":"3-2-1-los-gehts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ben2go.de\/en\/2016\/11\/09\/3-2-1-los-gehts\/","title":{"rendered":"The starting signal \u2013 A long journey begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is the <strong>November 9, 2016<\/strong> \u2013 there&#039;s snow in the Black Forest now. The odometer of my Nissan Patrol shows <strong>180,909 km<\/strong>. I&#039;ve been working towards this moment for the last two months. I&#039;m overjoyed and sad at the same time. I won&#039;t see my family and friends again for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>I said goodbye to my friends in the morning. I think they&#039;re used to it by now; they know me as a globetrotter. I even had a passenger for the trip from Stuttgart to Munich. I&#039;d advertised the ride online. Then my journey took me through Austria to just before the Slovenian border. <span class=\"s1\">At a rest stop, I met a Croatian truck driver. We cooked and ate dinner together. He spoke German quite well. It got cold at night, around zero degrees Celsius. I was glad I had insulated my car well and that the auxiliary heater was working.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_105\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105\" style=\"width: 3264px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-105\" src=\"https:\/\/ben2go.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_1838.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1838.JPG\" width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-105\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>First night in Austria\u00a0<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Es ist der 9. November 2016 &#8211; mittlerweile liegt Schnee im Schwarzwald.\u00a0Der Kilometerz\u00e4hler\u00a0meines Nissan Patrol zeigt 180.909km. Die letzten 2 Monate habe ich auf diesen Moment hingearbeitet. Ich bin \u00fcbergl\u00fccklich und sogleich auch traurig. Meine Familie und Freunde\u00a0werde ich wiedermal f\u00fcr eine lange Zeit nicht sehen. Ich\u00a0verabschiedete mich morgens von meinen Freunden. Ich glaube sie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[13,19],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indien-2016-2018","tag-abschied","tag-osterreich"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben2go.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben2go.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben2go.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben2go.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben2go.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ben2go.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben2go.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben2go.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben2go.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben2go.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}