The U.S. Issue: In Alaska, a Wilderness to Call Your Own
May 31, 2009
In a cabin in the Inside Passage, a family goes off the grid and experiences the rugged state on its own terms.
Boulder
May 31, 2009
climbing Eldo. good hard sand stone . very nice routs. so fun. just hard to find place to stay because kind of Big city and finding climbing partner. problem is animal is crazy hungry in there . bite nice packs then eat food then poo and pi in there. oh so bad. pack hanging from the tree is not enough. need plastic or metal Box for the food.
Back again
May 31, 2009
weather is bad for few days. I did not want camp by myself in the rain with some long weekend. so lonely……I miss Moab and people there. so I went back again in Moab. staying few days. climb little bit.
Mr. 5 by 5 and Memorial Weekend Rides
May 31, 2009
Saturday 23 May 2009Well the weather is great and I am ready for a ride. I had been wanting to take some more pictures of Effie out on these bridges I found in March when I was looking up all the Lewis and Clark historic sites in the area. It being my day off I slept in and then called Daryl to see if he would want to go with me. We made arrangements to meet at 1350 and ride out. The sit
From the Mideast to the Midwest
May 31, 2009
I am currently sitting in the airport because my last flight to Cleveland is delayed. This layover has made me think a lot about my overall experience in Cairo and studying abroad. I must say I feel this experience has been an experience of a life time. I wonrsquot say that experience changed me but I feel it taught me so many different things about myself. This was not an ordinary study abroad
They did not speak one word Vietnamese
May 31, 2009
Met yesterday in a restaurant a father dutch and his two sons austrian.The sons owned the restaurant bit mix between Vietamse and european with a worldfamos at least in Hoi An Austrian cook.Good food good concept only on the wrong side of the river where you only found it by chanche if you crossed the river what no so many people didThe boys mid twenty were living in Vietnam for almost 4
Dragon Boat Festival
May 31, 2009
Thursday May 28 2009 was Dragon Boat Festival or Duan Wu Jie one of thre three biggest holidays celebrated in China. It falls on the 5th day of the 5th month on the lunar calendar and is therefore also sometimes called the Double Fifth Festival. This festival is actually celebrated to mourn for a man who died more than 2000 years ago 278BC He was Qu Yuan a poet writer a patriotic officer
The before trip questionnaire extraordinaire
May 31, 2009
Well there are only ten days left until Hayley and I embark on our European adventure… Thus to start we thought we’d start with a little Q and A just for your amusement ours too of course. H What is your favourite colour and which country do you associate it with S Green as I know you know which of course would lead to the association with Ireland and Leprechauns.H What is the country you
Picton
May 31, 2009
After a fun night at the hostel with some nice kiwis from christchurch in kiakoura or whatever I went to bed and the next day left for picton. It’s really cold and snowing. Even the locals are suprised. I’m not. We drove next to the ocean and magnificant waves crushed into powder as we passed. We stopped for a small hike up to a waterfall. There we found dussins of sealions plying in the small
SURPRISE I’m still in Canada
May 31, 2009
Hi Friends and FamilySo technically I should be on a flight to Amsterdam right at this very moment…but it didn’t really work out that way. Why Because U of T and its travel agency fails.Catie a family friend and I drove to the airport well on schedual ready to go and all excited. I was mentally prepaired to leave had said goodbye to the siblings the house the cat and had eaten as much