{"id":141,"date":"2006-10-15T05:26:57","date_gmt":"2006-10-15T04:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/wordpress\/?p=141"},"modified":"2016-04-30T10:28:38","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T09:28:38","slug":"the-us-may-surprise-you-europeans-dont-carry-too-many-preconceptions-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/15\/the-us-may-surprise-you-europeans-dont-carry-too-many-preconceptions-along\/","title":{"rendered":"The US may surprise you, Europeans, don&#8217;t carry too many preconceptions along"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Before I shall start to focus on the Hawaii IRONMAN race during the days to come, I have to tell you something very outstanding. The US can always surprise you, over board with prejudices, European fellow countrymen! <\/em><br \/>This morning I left from the hotel at down town San Francisco to the SF airport for Kailua Kona at 6:20. The shuttle driver was a little bit late. I got slightly restless not knowing what I had to expect at the airport. Last time in 2003, I really got hassled.<\/p>\n<p>At the airport at almost the same time with the same airline as this year I ran almost out of time in 2003. This year I thought, business as usual, I even expected it to be worse. I got out at United Airlines check-in. Already in front of the door United offered a special service to check in the baggage. I couldn&#8217;t believe it, for me as well? Yes, definitely, for me as well. The guy was very professional, felt my mistrust, showed me my boarding pass, my baggage tag, everything perfect. I was in the loop. Good start within less then half an hour I had passed all security checks, I couldn&#8217;t believe it.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I left San Francisco without buying running shoes. Nevertheless I had a gorgeous run from down town San Francisco to the Golden Gate Bridge. I&#8217;ll try to get running shoes here in Kailua. Let&#8217;s wait and see.<\/p>\n<p>This how I was welcome. Sunset after the rain. View on Captain Cook Bay.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/biest-blog.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/sundowner_1200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" title=\"Sundowner_1200\" alt=\"Sundowner_1200\" src=\"http:\/\/biest-blog.typepad.com\/biest_blog\/images\/sundowner_1200.jpg\" width=\"390\" height=\"292\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US is always good for surprises. We as Europeans sometimes have to many preconceptions. Bush is not America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2294],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4776,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/4776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}