{"id":500,"date":"2007-10-24T23:34:24","date_gmt":"2007-10-24T21:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boerenroem.nl\/2007\/10\/24\/the-adventures-of-mark-mira-in-america-2\/"},"modified":"2007-10-31T00:49:57","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T22:49:57","slug":"the-adventures-of-mark-mira-in-america-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/24\/the-adventures-of-mark-mira-in-america-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The adventures of Mark & Mira in America (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"01<\/a>\"03<\/a>\"02<\/a><\/p>\n

The United States are a nice country. Really, I like it. The only thing is: you have to be ve-e-e-ry patient to get in… It took us ages to leave the airport: first of all we had to get through Immigration – about 50 minutes waiting time. When we got through, we took the luggage and went through customs – not mentioning some of the stuff that we carried, oops – but then they had us re-label the luggage (waiting time 15 minutes), since it was already checked in for Phoenix. Then we had to… well, long story short: when we finally got the rental car, heading North, we hit rush hour… so we were kinda tired when we arrived at our hosts’ place. Fortunately, from there things went better! Dean and Kara live in a beautiful place, out in the woods. Just lovely. And as I said: the US are a nice country, because when we went out for dinner, the place opened up especially for us (and served us some superb food as well!).<\/p>\n

We were supposed to leave for Phoenix early next day. We decided to change the flights, so we could have a little more time with Dean and Kara, that we were just getting to know a little bit. So after a good nights’ sleep we had another morning in Georgia. We took a walk to the actual Cannon Falls<\/a>, a very beautiful river with a fall of some 20 meters, right below the cottage, and talked some more about our little country and what God is doing around here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The United States are a nice country. Really, I like it. The only thing is: you have to be ve-e-e-ry patient to get in… It …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agape","tag-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Mark","author_link":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/author\/admin\/"},"featured_img":null,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false,"bravada-featured":false,"bravada-featured-lp":false,"bravada-featured-half":false,"bravada-featured-third":false,"bravada-lpbox-1":false,"bravada-lpbox-2":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Mark","author_link":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/author\/admin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The United States are a nice country. Really, I like it. The only thing is: you have to be ve-e-e-ry patient to get in… It …","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Agap\u00e8<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Agap\u00e8<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["travel<\/a>"],"unlinked":["travel<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Geplaatst 19 jaar geleden","modified":"Bijgewerkt 19 jaar geleden"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Geplaatst op 24 oktober 2007","modified":"Bijgewerkt op 31 oktober 2007"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Geplaatst op 24 oktober 2007 23:34","modified":"Bijgewerkt op 31 oktober 2007 0:49"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p63Qy-84","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":498,"url":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/31\/the-adventures-of-mark-mira-in-america-1\/","url_meta":{"origin":500,"position":0},"title":"The adventures of Mark & Mira in America (1)","author":"Mark","date":"31 oktober 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Wow, that was quite a trip. Travelling 46 hours and 20.000 km in 6 days, from 12 C to 32 C, by plane, rental car, taxi and golf cart... But it was fun. We travelled from Amsterdam to Atlanta to meet with a couple that are interested in our ministry.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Agap\u00e8"","block_context":{"text":"Agap\u00e8","link":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/c\/agape\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":501,"url":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/25\/the-adventures-of-mark-mira-in-america-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":500,"position":1},"title":"The adventures of Mark & Mira in America (3)","author":"Mark","date":"25 oktober 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"At 1.30 pm the second episode started: travelling to Phoenix. And guess what: long before rush hour, we hit a jam because of a traffic accident, downtown Atlanta... so we ended up running through the hallways in the airport, hitting a 2-kilometer long line for Security, running back, looking for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Agap\u00e8"","block_context":{"text":"Agap\u00e8","link":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/c\/agape\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":502,"url":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/29\/even-more-adventures\/","url_meta":{"origin":500,"position":2},"title":"Even more adventures","author":"Mark","date":"29 oktober 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, one or two more stories from the States. The conference theme was 'Proclaiming the mystery' (derived from Colossians 3), and to add some fun to it there was a mystery to be solved, somewhat like the game Clue. Mira had the privilege to play Hercule Poirot and present the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Agap\u00e8"","block_context":{"text":"Agap\u00e8","link":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/c\/agape\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":495,"url":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/20\/rotterdam-atlanta-phoenix\/","url_meta":{"origin":500,"position":3},"title":"Rotterdam, Atlanta, Phoenix","author":"Mark","date":"20 oktober 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Currently making preparations for another trip: next Wednesday Mira and I will fly to Atlanta, and the next day to Phoenix, to meet with potential supporters for Agap\u00e8, and especially the Rotterdam developments. I think it's safe to say this is a unique opportunity, as many of the people we'll\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Agap\u00e8"","block_context":{"text":"Agap\u00e8","link":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/c\/agape\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":387,"url":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/2007\/01\/13\/its-official-now\/","url_meta":{"origin":500,"position":4},"title":"It’s official now","author":"Mark","date":"13 januari 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Last Thursday Mira and I were commissioned as the National Directors for Agap\u00e8 The Netherlands in a ceremony held for that purpose. It was a very special time. When I have some pictures and more time I'll report more.","rel":"","context":"In "Agap\u00e8"","block_context":{"text":"Agap\u00e8","link":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/c\/agape\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":444,"url":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/2007\/06\/18\/birthday-presents\/","url_meta":{"origin":500,"position":5},"title":"Birthday presents","author":"Mark de Boer","date":"18 juni 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"A special birthday, and an evenly special present. I've been traveling all day to arrive at the beautiful chalet in Findeln, Switzerland to celebrate my birthday with cake and wine in the company of 10 international friends. But the most original present is to be given later this week by\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Family"","block_context":{"text":"Family","link":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/c\/family\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}