{"id":422,"date":"2009-03-13T13:44:13","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T17:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/?p=422"},"modified":"2012-10-05T11:22:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T15:22:00","slug":"my-favorite-its-just-around-the-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/my-favorite-its-just-around-the-corner","title":{"rendered":"My Favorite: It’s Just Around the Corner"},"content":{"rendered":"

My Favorite: is a little different.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s more about a general feeling than a specific experience.\u00a0 It’s about that feeling you get when you begin to comprehend that just around the corner lies an incredible site you’ve only seen in pictures–and that you’re about to experience it yourself, live and in person.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been fortunate enough through my travels to have this experience many times.\u00a0 I remember driving up to Sugarloaf, Maine<\/a> when I was younger. As you drive up the winding access road, this 4,000 foot standalone mountain seems to appear out of nowhere once you make that final turn around the corner (appropriately named “Oh My Gosh<\/a>” corner).\u00a0 It’s truly incredible.<\/p>\n

I had a similar “Wow” moment last year when I traveled to Italy with Explorica and visited Florence.\u00a0 As we left our hotel, we made a left out of the hotel and walked about 5 minutes, then made another slight turn and all of a sudden, the beautiful Duomo appeared before us<\/a>, standing tall and bright.\u00a0 With all the buildings along the narrow streets, non of us were expecting the massive building to appear out of nowhere.<\/p>\n

While both of these \u201cjust around the corner\u201d moments were memorable, nothing will ever top the morning I first saw the Taj Mahal<\/a> while I was on Semester at Sea program.\u00a0 It was in the half-light of 6:00 a.m. that our bus dropped us off a little way from the main gates.\u00a0 After the short walk, we continued through the main gates.\u00a0 Having never been there before, I had no idea how far we were from the building.<\/p>\n

We turned left and walked through this archway. And as the crowd began thinning out in front of me, the Taj Mahal appeared.\u00a0 To this day, it is the most breathtaking moment I have ever experienced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My Favorite: is a little different. It’s more about a general feeling than a specific experience.\u00a0 It’s about that feeling you get when you begin to comprehend that just around the corner lies an incredible site you’ve only seen in pictures–and that you’re about to experience it yourself, live and in person. I\u2019ve been fortunate Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,63,172],"tags":[49,48,50],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-parents","category-students","category-teachers","tag-duomo","tag-sugarloaf","tag-taj-mahal","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1668,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions\/1668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}