{"id":2149,"date":"2013-04-01T17:14:38","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T17:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spontaneousdevelopment.com\/sdnuggets\/?p=2149"},"modified":"2013-04-02T13:38:16","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T13:38:16","slug":"update-checked-into-hotel-why-im-keeping-my-destinations-location-secret-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/update-checked-into-hotel-why-im-keeping-my-destinations-location-secret-for-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Checked into hotel (Why I'm keeing my destinations and location secret for now)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi,<\/p>\n

I've just checked into a hotel room in the capital of a Francophone West African nation. You have take my word for it for now that I AM really outside Nigeria \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

At least my family knows I'm telling the truth - as does Burt Dubin<\/a> who I've already emailed from my Blackberry on arrival.<\/p>\n

About Blood Sucking Vampires<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Later in the week I'll explain why I've kept my destinations and location a \"secret\" for now:<\/strong> it's due to the activities of people Chris Guillebeau says a friend of his called \"Blood sucking vampires who want you to fail\". More on this later in the week.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Burt Dubin for letting me know the link to the newsletter in the first email broadcase that went out this morning \u00a0was bad. Here's the newsletter proper.<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n

I hope you enjoy reading it.<\/p>\n

Hunting for the Super Star Commercial Rabbit Farmer<\/strong><\/h3>\n

I'm going out to find my 700,000 rabbit breeding entrepreneur based in this city tomorrow morning. My plan is to request an interview with him, which I'll publish as a video, audio and text. Then I also intend to see if I can get his consent to use photographs from his facility (which I've seen in videos) in my work in progress guide on Commercial Rabbit Farming.<\/p>\n

Hooking Up With Handballers<\/strong><\/h3>\n

I've discovered Handball courts looking in excellent condition out here - and a lot of people seem to know about the game. That's great because I intend hooking up with active players to see if I can join them in training. That's a strategy I've found quite effective for breaking myself in whenever I've travelled. When people see that you're a lover (better still a \u00a0competitive player) of their sport, they warm up to you.<\/p>\n

There's Power Supply!<\/h3>\n

Oh yeah...in case you're in Nigeria, and wondering: YES, there's electricity. And YES the people take it for granted. They expect to have it. I'm certainly glad I don't have to plan to stop over at the fuel station this evening to buy fuel into \u00a0kegs for my generator!<\/p>\n

Got some work to do tonight - have to create a slideshow presentation for meetings I'll be having later in the week.<\/p>\n

See you later - will upload the photos I've taken later in the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi, I've just checked into a hotel room in the capital of a Francophone West African nation. You have take my word for it for now that I AM really outside Nigeria \ud83d\ude42 At least my family knows I'm telling the truth - as does Burt Dubin who I've already emailed from my Blackberry on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266,112],"tags":[270,115,269,271],"class_list":["post-2149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-dn-travel-news","category-public-speaking","tag-blood-sucking-vampires","tag-burt-dubin","tag-location-independent-entrepreneuring","tag-why-im-keeping-my-destination-a-secret"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":1523,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2149"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2153,"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions\/2153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}