{"id":1201,"date":"2023-04-03T09:34:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T16:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2023-04-03T10:07:17","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T17:07:17","slug":"two-over-80s-women-travel-the-world-in-80-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2023\/04\/03\/two-over-80s-women-travel-the-world-in-80-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Two over 80s women travel the world in 80 days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Two Texan octogenarians are on an &#8220;adventure&#8221; around the world to celebrate their 80th birthdays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taking inspiration from Jules Verne&#8217;s novel, Around the World in 80 Days, Ellie Hamby and Sandy Hazelip\u00a0are currently completing the Australian leg of their journey.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2023-03-28\/around-the-world-in-80-days-ellie-hamby-sandy-hazelip\/102148646\">Meet the Texan octogenarians &#8216;taking an adventure&#8217; around the world in 80 days &#8211; ABC News<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some missing background:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bigcountryhomepage.com\/news\/i-cant-imagine-going-with-anyone-else-abilene-friends-set-to-travel-world-at-81-in-80-days\/\">They had prior global travel experience<\/a> traveling together (3 big international trips) before setting out on this 80-day adventure. They also had travel experience before that (Ellie Hambley has been to 107 countries and even has homes in both the U.S. and Zambia and Dr. Hazelip has lectured throughout the world, earlier in life); both are <em>highly experienced <\/em>global travelers before this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They should have started younger &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/aroundtheworldat80.com\/about-us\">Dr. Hazelip&#8217;s husband died 20 years ago<\/a>, and Hambley had also lost her husband.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two 80+ year old women are in the news for traveling around the world &#8220;in 80 days&#8221;, as if anyone can do this. Reality check: They are both highly experienced global travelers before setting out on this trip. One has been to 107 countries and the other had lectured in numerous countries throughout the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-globally-experienced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}