{"id":33,"date":"2015-11-15T20:53:02","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T04:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anadventuretogether.ctsmg.com\/?p=33"},"modified":"2016-06-01T20:58:03","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T03:58:03","slug":"iquitos-scouting-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anadventuretogether.ctsmg.com\/iquitos-scouting-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Iquitos Scouting Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Angela and I are back from our scouting trip to Iquitos. The trip was a success, in that we discovered this situation won&#8217;t work for us.\u00a0Angela isn&#8217;t\u00a0prepared to live in the more primitive conditions, and the school isn&#8217;t going to work for our kids. But the clear showstopper was simply network\u00a0speed: the Internet wasn&#8217;t nearly fast enough for me\u00a0to work remotely. As the largest city in the world without roadway access\u2014you get there by air or boat\u2014there is no natural path\u00a0to lay phone wire or fiber optic cable. So all telecommunications are by satellite or microwave, meaning that there is a severe bandwidth constraint in the city. The mobile phone companies all had &#8220;4G LTE&#8221; plastered everywhere, but I\u00a0could never get better than 3G on my phone. And the fastest wired Internet speed I tested\u00a0was 700kbps, or about 15% of what\u00a0I need to work remotely.<\/p>\n<p>We loved the team at People of Peru Project, and support them wholeheartedly. We were all disappointed that we won&#8217;t be joining them for the year. But God has a plan for us, and I&#8217;m excited to see where He&#8217;s going to lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angela and I are back from our scouting trip to Iquitos. The trip was a success, in that we discovered this situation won&#8217;t work for us.\u00a0Angela isn&#8217;t\u00a0prepared to live in the more primitive conditions, and the school isn&#8217;t going to work for our kids. But the clear showstopper was simply network\u00a0speed: the Internet wasn&#8217;t nearly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anadventuretogether.ctsmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anadventuretogether.ctsmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anadventuretogether.ctsmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anadventuretogether.ctsmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anadventuretogether.ctsmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anadventuretogether.ctsmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"https:\/\/anadventuretogether.ctsmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anadventuretogether.ctsmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anadventuretogether.ctsmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anadventuretogether.ctsmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}