{"id":143,"date":"2008-05-17T22:08:56","date_gmt":"2008-05-17T11:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/17\/tailor-made\/"},"modified":"2008-05-17T22:08:56","modified_gmt":"2008-05-17T11:08:56","slug":"tailor-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/17\/tailor-made\/","title":{"rendered":"Tailor Made"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Woke up way too early.\u00c2\u00a0 Walking around old town for a bit, I gave in to the countless tailor shops, and had a pair of shorts made to wear around Asia, and more importantly at the gym when I get home.\u00c2\u00a0 I ordered another pair from another location, figuring if I really liked one, I could have a third pair ordered.<\/p>\n<p>With time to kill before my shorts were finished, I grabbed some breakfast, then rented a bike and headed about 6kms east, towards the beach.\u00c2\u00a0 At the beach I ran into the American&#8217;s, Yasmine and Natalie, who&#8217;ve been following me since Krabi, Thailand.\u00c2\u00a0 I asked them where we were headed next, and they seem to be making a couple more stops than I had intended &#8211; I may have to revisit my itinerary.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2134\/2507384047_6a8909070e.jpg\" class=\"flickrimg\" alt=\"IMG_7637\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lay on the beach, reading and getting some sun.\u00c2\u00a0 Eventually, after both sides seemed warm enough, and my chapter was done, I headed into the water.\u00c2\u00a0 The water was great, and it was possible to walk very far out without the water getting\u00c2\u00a0 too deep. I attempted some body surfing for a good while, then headed back to do some more reading.<\/p>\n<p>After spending a lot longer than I expected at the beach, I headed back to the hotel for a shower, then grabbed some dinner.\u00c2\u00a0 My shorts were nearly ready to be tried on, so I headed down.\u00c2\u00a0 Not as great as I was hoping, but they might do the trick.\u00c2\u00a0 At least they weren&#8217;t too expensive.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3171\/2508219510_abf98d82b7.jpg\" class=\"flickrimg\" alt=\"IMG_7645\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I got my next pair from the other shop, and they were a little better.\u00c2\u00a0 I wasn&#8217;t so pleased that I ordered a third pair, but they&#8217;ll do the trick, I think.\u00c2\u00a0 I checked my email back at the hotel, and saw that John (from Vientiane) was in Hoi An, and that he&#8217;d be watching football near my hotel.\u00c2\u00a0 I went in search of him, but didn&#8217;t have much luck finding him.\u00c2\u00a0 I wandered around a bit, and ran into some local kids who wanted to practice their English (or were just very friendly).\u00c2\u00a0 Chatted with them for a bit, then saw Thierry, from my cooking class, so I interrupted to talk with him for a bit.\u00c2\u00a0 They were heading out for a drink, but my clock was all messed up, and since I&#8217;d gotten up so early, I was in need of an early sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woke up way too early.\u00c2\u00a0 Walking around old town for a bit, I gave in to the countless tailor shops, and had a pair of shorts made to wear around Asia, and more importantly at the gym when I get home.\u00c2\u00a0 I ordered another pair from another location, figuring if I really liked one, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/17\/tailor-made\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tailor Made&#8221;<\/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":[51,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hoi-an","category-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}