{"id":362,"date":"2011-11-20T12:20:01","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T12:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=362"},"modified":"2011-11-20T12:20:01","modified_gmt":"2011-11-20T12:20:01","slug":"from-portland-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2011\/11\/20\/from-portland-to-china\/","title":{"rendered":"From Portland to China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forestreet.biz\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-401\" title=\"2011.11.20.a\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/2011.11.20.a.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinadine-ah.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-402\" title=\"2011.11.20.b\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/2011.11.20.b.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>Having been a city boy all my life (Hong Kong, NYC, Boston), my transition to living in Togus got off to a rocky start. I was nearly stranded on my first grocery run to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hannaford.com\/\">Hannaford<\/a> in Augusta when I learned that GPS navigation on my smartphone does not work without data access while roaming. My usual sources of multimedia and entertainment were also lacking, although the availability of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MiFi\">MiFi<\/a> in the house allowed me to catch up on season 3 of <a href=\"http:\/\/abc.go.com\/shows\/lost\">Lost<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netflix.com\">Netflix<\/a> streaming. Fortunately, I found reprieve from the cold and solitude after returning from my interview at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dukehealth.org\/eye_center\/\">Duke<\/a> and catching an earlier flight back to Portland to meet Melody for dinner at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forestreet.biz\">Fore Street<\/a>. It was well worth the extra $50 airline fee for tasty wood-grilled mussels and a few extra hours with my wife. We spent Sunday exploring nearby Augusta and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/China,_Maine\">China<\/a> (the town in Maine, not the country), shopping in strip malls and dining at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinadine-ah.com\">China Dine-Ah<\/a>. After hearing the catchy jingle on the radio all weekend long, we could not resist the quality homestyle cooking like meatloaf and sheperd&#8217;s pie. When I finally returned home to Boston to cover call this weekend, I had tons of emails and receipts to file away, but fortunately, no ruptured globes to repair. Although the Togus rotation has been laid back so far, I&#8217;ll be looking forward to our upcoming vacation with Melody&#8217;s family over Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having been a city boy all my life (Hong Kong, NYC, Boston), my transition to living in Togus got off to a rocky start. I was nearly stranded on my first grocery run to the Hannaford in Augusta when I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2011\/11\/20\/from-portland-to-china\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}