{"id":2657,"date":"2012-03-05T17:36:53","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T00:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/?p=2657"},"modified":"2016-01-22T13:06:08","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T20:06:08","slug":"im-not-nuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/im-not-nuts\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m not nuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

I loved my two trips to Costa Rica<\/a>, to Hawaii and to Victoria BC<\/a>, San Diego and (kind of) to Los Angeles and Salt Lake… But I traveled so much last year that I had determined I wasn’t going ANYWHERE in 2012… was going to stay home and focus on my essential oil business<\/em>, creating a residual income that would then allow me to travel more freely when and where I wanted. <\/p>\n

I was content with that plan.<\/p>\n

But then I got an unexpected invitation to spend a couple of weeks at a villa<\/em>… in the guest room that is apparently just SCREAMING my name… a red guest room with a Chinese Opium bed<\/em>… that looks out onto a gorgeous pool<\/em>… and lush mountains and rice paddies…. in Bali<\/em>.<\/p>\n

My first reaction was, “I don’t think I can do that…” (nuts, I know!)<\/em> since it was so sudden and I had determined I was staying home this year. And I would have to work things out with Margie (I am her Virtual Assistant), and potentially move an essential oil class I was teaching. I just didn’t have travel to Asia on my radar.<\/p>\n

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Yes, this is the pool and the house. <\/strong> (Allison, are you nuts???!!!)<\/em><\/p>\n

And on top of that, this home is currently inhabited by three darling little girls<\/em> I only see once or twice a year if I’m lucky. And an awesome son and beautiful daughter. And frogs. Oh, and a maid, chef and driver. I wonder if there is a pool boy….<\/em> \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n

Once the shock of the invitation wore off, I thought to myself “ALLISON! You would be NUTS to say no to that – no matter what it takes to make it happen! <\/strong>!” (I’m sure you were thinking the same thing… my sister was!) <\/p>\n

Well, despite the prevailing opinion, I’m NOT<\/em> (entirely) nuts <\/em>– so I got the airline ticket and have started packing. I leave on Friday at midnight! I just hope I can survive the 20+ hours flying time to get there… and that I can fit in the seat.<\/em><\/p>\n

I’ll take lots of photos, I promise. And yes, Michelle, I’ll record myself singing at least a line or two from Bali Hai for you (even though the movie wasn’t in Bali \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n

Bali haiiiiiiii may call you…… <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I traveled so much last year that I had determined I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t going ANYWHERE in 2012\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 was going to stay home and focus on my essential oil business, so I would have funds\/flexibility to travel more freely when and where I wanted later.<\/p>\n

But then I got an unexpected invitation to spend a couple of weeks at a villa\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6. in Bali. I considered saying no…. what am I, nuts???<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[215,216,42,106,218,28,217,241,242],"class_list":["post-2657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-asia","tag-bali","tag-brandon","tag-costa-rica","tag-doterra","tag-frog","tag-island","tag-photography","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2657"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3060,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions\/3060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}