L.A.
Travel Blogs from L.A., United States
We are headed home
4 am came early. Really early. We tried to be as quiet as possible. Well everyone but Christina. Heather took the key to the room when she headed down with her luggage. The lights were on a timer connected to key so when the lights went out, Christina at ...
Day 3 -- Pancakes, Magic, and Martians
Last evening we decided that we could wait no longer. We would have to go to the REAL attractions (the ones that made us come to Lake George) the night of Day 3 (Tuesday). No more fooling around! But first, some fooling around. The day started out ...
Fenway Park and the Red Sox game
So I was hoping to come back to the hostel and go to bed cause I'm exhausted, but I have three new roommates who seem to have taken over the room. I figure I'll come write this and then I'm going to bed whether ...
Heading Home at last (leg injury pictures)
Anyone who has spent time wandering around airports knows, there is only so much you can do before you go stir crazy.For me its about 14 minutes... Anyway, the flight from Lima to Houston was full and I got to sit in the aisle seat, so I could put ...
Home - YAY!!!
I just love to come home from any trip, but this one was exhausting. I think we saw enough of Peru & Bolivia to make the trip eventful. Certainly would change a few things if wew did it next time time make our lives a little easier, and ...
Seattle
Low-riders, CB radios and soon disco. Coming home to America was a bigger adjustment than traveling to the Middle East. Now it's fashion instead of survival. Commercialism instead of religion. I hope you enjoyed my postcard tour of ...
Transitions
I write now after a long hiatus, not because there was nothing to write, but because sometimes just living is a big job in itself. The last months in Costa Rica were a whirlwind of school projects, class trips, preformances, reunions, final exams, new ...
DAY 4 -- Goony Golf, Natural Stone Bridge and more
Breakfast was a home-grown affair, with toast and cereal out of the cupboard. While munching we watched some local television, and were sent into a fit of giggles by a commercial for a local Easy Rock station whose motto pledged that their station would ...
A few more than six feet under
Where to begin? I guess that when you don't update weekly, too many experiences accumulate and you have to pick and choose. By the way, photos are up on the earlier entries. The weekend, perhaps, is the best place to start. On Saturday, CIEE took us ...
Boat, sweet Boat
... divorced, away. Some of her answers amaze me, others just seem funny. And, as always when coming back to the United States from abroad, there's that funny reverse culture shock: Souvenir shopping for Alaskan prices on Chinese salaries was a bit ...
One year after landing in Panama, last entry
It has been a year since we landed in Panama City, more than six months since our return to McCall, over a month since our blog was featured by travelpod, and now, finally, we are ready to do our final entry. Lists, observations, ...
Buy, Buy New York
It's been a slow few days here in the big city that have probably been due a northern hemisphere virus. Being fatigued I thought it better not to take in too many sights and instead concentrate on my other purpose here - shopping.I had been told of the ...
perspectives on Hawaii...
I'm looking at a full bodied sea turtle that's resting on the shore, eyes half closed....body appears to be fully relaxed...and it occurs to me that s/he doesn't know whether s/he is resting on the beach of a state park, or downtown Kona amongst ...
Another Journey in the Books...
Stop by Klenske, Ink. After a very long day of traveling, we are home. Going home is never fun. I think we got a bit use to the European way of life, and being back here in Dubuque, Iowa, where everything is a dull brown and big, makes us wish we were ...
Mobing the boat
Seattle is where this journey begins. This job is also for Williamson and Associates, our company has been doing a lot of work with them lately. Donny is up in Seattle as well doing a NOAA survey in Oak Harbor for these guys at the same time as a matter ...
Big City Reunion
After a long and delayed flight, I was back on the West Coast. Staying in Inglewood for its location alone, it was something of a downgrade from the prime locations I had been in the past. However its proximity to the airport was all important. ...
Back home to Chicago...and the Snow!
So two weeks is really a great amount of vacation time...long enough to really relax, but not long enough that you get homesick, and your plants don't need watering in that amount of time. We made it back to Singapore after leaving our "interesting" ...
the earth, the food, and the stars
I've spent all my time so far in the Pahoa area of the Big Island. It's on the lower east side of the island and runs right up to the volcanic flow of the infamous volcano Kilauea....which at the moment is quite active....more than it's been ...
1st world charm
Ahhhh... ...a computer that works. I'm back safely in the states now. Oddly enough, NOW I'm facing culture shock! After a week, I can finally keep down American food without getting nauseous. Time is a funny thing to me. A few ...
SoCal for five days
After leaving Sayulita, it was about eight hours by bus to Mazatlan. We arrived in Mazatlan about 10 pm, and had to leave the next morning for the airport at 5:30 am, so we decided to just crash at one of the hotels surrounding the bus station. We ...
The Wedding
Just in case our 15 month trip round the world wasn't interesting enough my brother decided to get married in New York in December to give us a little holiday from our holiday. Unfortunately Malaysia is literally on the other side of the world so some ...
Good Evening, New York
This marks the end of my New York chapter and also the first half of my adventure. It may be short-sighted to call it a perfect city, but every moment here has provided an indelible experience. I would also venture to say that this city is also one ...
2 days in NYC now going upstate NY-snow predicted
ArArrived at JFK Monday at 6pm local time and couldn't believe we had arrived in New York. Took us a while and a bit of money to to get ourselves and our luggage to our accommodation in Guttenberg, New Jersey. Well a couple of tunnels, freeways and toll ...
1, 2, 3 and we're off!
Visit Klenske, Ink. Soon Kara will be out of class and it will be spring break (our last one as students). The plan is to go to Europe for a bit more than a week, splitting our time between London and Paris. Not exactly a warm destination, but since ...
Crossing the Line
We have been approaching the IDL now for two weeks, held back by route development and storms. Finally we slid across the line without event. I'm not sure if there is any procedure about crossing the IDL like there is crossing the date line but either ...
DAY 7 -- Farewell Lake George,hello biker butts...
Oh, a sad day, but it was bound to come. We are all ready to go home by now, but really not looking forward to going back to work. The horror! Appropriate to our mood, the day is a little stormy looking, grey when we start out and increasingly ...
Exhausted beyond belief but well worth the trip
I'm in Boston!!!! Yay, I've always wanted to come here. I drove for ten hours today and after sitting in stop and go traffic throughout pretty much the ENTIRE state of Connecticut there was a lot I wanted to say, but I don't ...
Take Me Out To The Ball Game
I have to admit, I have never quite understood Baseball. The rules are simple enough, but the format seemed slow, uneventful and burdened with the constant taint of steroid abuse. Nonetheless, despite my suspicion I have been told many times that ...
Survived China, hello USA.
It was a long day. Saturday 1st of October 2011, it ended up being ... 24 + 12 = 36 hours long!!!!! We took our time getting ready to leave the Blue Mountain Hostel and checked out at 12.00pm. Then went to the bookstore for a last minute book buy for the ...
