{"id":14390,"date":"2015-11-04T23:27:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T23:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffjones.com\/?p=14390"},"modified":"2015-11-04T23:27:46","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T23:27:46","slug":"next-stop-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=14390","title":{"rendered":"Next stop Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14396\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14396\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Untitled_-_Untitled_Document.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14396\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Untitled_-_Untitled_Document-300x111.jpg\" alt=\"cuba - geoff jones proposed route\" width=\"300\" height=\"111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Untitled_-_Untitled_Document-300x111.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Untitled_-_Untitled_Document-768x283.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Untitled_-_Untitled_Document.jpg 999w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14396\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">First attempt at designing a route<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s time for\u00a0another bike tour :-). With Cuba and the USA making up I thought it would be good to visit Cuba before major changes start taking place.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m intending to cycle end to end, about 1,000 miles. Flying into Havana then hopefully, flying\/busing\/training down to Santiago de Cuba . This should\u00a0allow the trade winds to blow me \u00a0back up to Pinar del Rio.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14392\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14392\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Mobile_roaming_-_Roaming___international_-_Support_-_Three.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14392\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Mobile_roaming_-_Roaming___international_-_Support_-_Three-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"3 Charges in Cuba\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Mobile_roaming_-_Roaming___international_-_Support_-_Three-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Mobile_roaming_-_Roaming___international_-_Support_-_Three-1024x555.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Mobile_roaming_-_Roaming___international_-_Support_-_Three-768x417.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Mobile_roaming_-_Roaming___international_-_Support_-_Three.jpg 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14392\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">3 Charges in Cuba<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>From all my reading it seems as if mobile 3G and WiFi could be a problem so not sure how I&#8217;m going to keep in touch or for that matter navigate. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve bought a DeLorme Inreach satellite communicator which acts rather like an old fashioned pager but using the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iridium_satellite_constellation\">Iridium satellite network<\/a> so it should give total global coverage. It bluetooths to the iPhone app etc. In theory\u00a0I should be trackable at 10minute intervals plus I can twitter\/facebook the text messages.<\/p>\n<p>The map of my travels with messages \u00a0should be here\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/share.delorme.com\/GeoffJones\">https:\/\/share.delorme.com\/GeoffJones<\/a><\/p>\n<p>First Update:\u00a0I am sorry to advise VS63 05NOV is delayed until 13.00. Check in closes 2rs before.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for\u00a0another bike tour :-). With Cuba and the USA making up I thought it would be good to visit Cuba before major changes start taking place. I&#8217;m intending to cycle end to end, about 1,000 miles. Flying into Havana then hopefully, flying\/busing\/training down to Santiago de Cuba . This should\u00a0allow the trade winds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[83,132],"class_list":["post-14390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cuba","tag-biking","tag-cuba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}