[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":86},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog:2006:adventuresinjacksonwyoming-part1":3,"blogMore-Personal":72,"comments-adventuresinjacksonwyoming-part1":85},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"category":55,"commentCount":56,"date":57,"description":12,"excerpt":58,"extension":59,"filenames":60,"hidden":61,"image":60,"meta":62,"minutes":51,"navigation":63,"path":64,"seo":65,"showCategory":60,"stem":66,"tags":67,"updated":60,"url":69,"wordCount":70,"__hash__":71},"content\u002Fblog\u002F2006\u002Fadventuresinjacksonwyoming-part1.md","Adventures in Jackson, Wyoming (part 1)",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":49},"minimark",[9,13,18,21,24,27,31,34,37,40,43],[10,11,12],"p",{},"Once a year I head out with a bunch of friends for a week of winter sports. This year my snowboarding buddies and I (a skier) decided to skip the unfriendly European slopes and flip over the Atlantic to Jackson, Wyoming in USA for a whole 10 days of slope mastery.",[14,15,17],"h2",{"id":16},"getting-there","Getting there",[10,19,20],{},"As always our first flight landed us at Gatwick. One overnight stay led us into flight 2 to Atlanta, Georgia via Delta Airlines. The flight was a whopping 9.5 hours but luckily quiet and under booked. If they hadn’t smashed the handle on my new luggage I might have given Delta a full 5 stars.",[10,22,23],{},"Things got exciting at US customs when the customs officer said \"Come on little buddy\" to a friend ahead of me. At that point all sense went out the window and was replaced by uncontrollable giggles and a bout of amnesia as to what exactly I’d come to do in the USA. Luckily, I’d already written out all the details on the Visa waiver form and despite a few stern looks and harsh words was let in. I guess terrorists and illegal immigrants don’t break out in a laughter attack at customs checkpoints.",[10,25,26],{},"Tired and dazed we boarded another 4 hour flight to Salt Lake City and then a quick 1 hour to Jackson itself where we finally met our Inghams rep Nicki (imagine a Scot with an American accent).",[14,28,30],{"id":29},"man-down","Man down",[10,32,33],{},"During our first day my friend James had a nasty fall off his snowboard that left him with a very painful wrist. As the day went on we found out it was dislocated and fractured and he was soon hospitalised.",[10,35,36],{},"As the week went on he’d go through three operations, have a metal plate put in his wrist and require a skin graft which would leave a massive red square of bare flesh on his leg.",[10,38,39],{},"To make matters worse he wouldn’t be able to join us on the return journey home and one of us would need to stay out a little longer to bring him home once the doctors think he’s ready.",[10,41,42],{},"Travel insurance is of course invaluable when this happens but phoning them up and making them sign forms when drugged up on morphine leaves a lot to be desired.",[10,44,45],{},[46,47,48],"em",{},"[)amien",{"title":50,"searchDepth":51,"depth":51,"links":52},"",2,[53,54],{"id":16,"depth":51,"text":17},{"id":29,"depth":51,"text":30},"Personal",0,"2006-01-21T06:07:00+00:00","[object Object]","md",null,false,{},true,"\u002Fblog\u002F2006\u002Fadventuresinjacksonwyoming-part1",{"title":5,"description":12},"blog\u002F2006\u002Fadventuresinjacksonwyoming-part1",[68],"USA","\u002Fblog\u002F2006\u002Fadventuresinjacksonwyoming-part1\u002F",384,"kSfB1RsCTk81w-7jw_qu3_5qU08q1DaIfIO4PD3hIs4",[73,77,81],{"title":74,"date":75,"url":76},"Origins of a love affair","2009-12-29T12:06:51+00:00","\u002Fblog\u002F2009\u002Forigins-of-a-love-affair\u002F",{"title":78,"date":79,"url":80},"Friday Fill-Ins #91","2008-09-27T05:26:07+00:00","\u002Fblog\u002F2008\u002Ffriday-fill-ins-91\u002F",{"title":82,"date":83,"url":84},"How did I get started in software development?","2008-08-05T18:37:55+00:00","\u002Fblog\u002F2008\u002Fhow-did-i-get-started-in-software-development\u002F",[],1780900535481]