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Home sweet home ......Here comes Jasmine my dog

SoCal for five days
Jun 20, 2006 (4 photos)

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 ...

Saying Our Goodbyes
Jan 8, 2006 (10 photos)

We are very very thankful for all our great friends, families, and colleagues that have supported this decision and gave us a proper send off. We will miss you all but hope to stay connected through this website.

Day 1, Pt.1: The Thirty Hour Flight
May 20, 2008 (10 photos)

It's 10:30ish Tuesday morning. After leaving nearly all my errands for the last minute, I've finally finished moving out and packing for my three months abroad. Jeff shows up, him, Dan & I load the luggage and monkey into Princess (Jeff's car), and it ...

The Long Journey Home
May 21, 2007

Will Update ASAP

California , I'm coming home
Aug 23, 2005

... take out the Starbucks , McDonalds and tourist and some other places, Hawaii is another exotic polonysian island. Los Angeles is the only place in the United states where more people take their dogs to coffee bean than their spouces and New York ... Well ...

Day 91: Journey's End at In-N-Out
Aug 20, 2008

Back on May 22nd when good ole Singapore Flight #### first began its descent into the Kathmandu Valley, I wrote that the zero-g moment and landing gears popping out shot my heart into my throat and nearly gave me a panic attack. "OMG what have I done, I'm ...

City of Angels
Apr 9, 2005

... like being in L.A. So this was the first time I was spending some time visiting tourist attractions that I associated with being in Los Angeles. From my base in Melrose I did lots of walking around during this weekend. And at all times of the day and ...

Los Angeles - Shop till you drop.....
Jan 25, 2009 (3 photos)

Los Angeles - Days after an earthquake...... This whole honeymoon it seems that we have either just missed disaster or we have arrived during a disaster. First Mumbai and arriving the day after the terrorist attack all kicked off...... then arriving ...

California Dreamin... or not so much
Oct 17, 2004 (5 photos)

He Said: Well we came, we saw, we walked, we rode, we waited in line and by the end we couldn't wait to leave. Two days of Disney was more than enough and so by the third day we'd all pretty much had enough of the Mouse and his various Disney pals. There ...

Hip hop in China
Jan 31, 2009

... in Beijing. "There's a lot of cats that can rap back home," said Jeremy Johnston, a member of the group and the son of a United States Air Force captain. "But there's not a lot of cats that can rap in Chinese." Mr. Johnston, 33, moved to Beijing in the ...

And the most popular destination is . . .
Jul 28, 2008

... ". Lonely Planet marketing analyst Adam Stanford said that the rise of the US can be linked to exchange rates. "The United States is obviously becoming increasingly popular due to the exchange rate of the dollar," Stanford says. "Making what was ...

Leaving America...
Jul 3, 2008 (1 photos)

Thursday Jun 3 2008 @LAX Well its finally happening; Jessie and I managed to squeeze what would have been months of organization into about a month and a half to fit our timelines, and it worked! We are on our way to India! After some choked-up ...

Lights, camera, action on Los Angeles!
Apr 14, 2008 (37 photos)

We disembarked our turbulent flight from Japan a little greener around the gills and a lot more bleary-eyed into the much-anticipated Los Angeles. In true California style the weather was a very sunny and a lovely 24oC or so. We hopped on a shuttle bus and ...

LA
Jan 17, 2001

I flew into LA ready to meet Anita who was flying over from Hawaii. This was not the best planned of my trips and began with a taxi taking me to our hotel that we had booked over the internet, 10 minutes from the airport. It was not until around 20 ...

LaLa land
Aug 1, 2004 (4 photos)

Hello again, Forgot to mention that in Vegas we saw Limahl (I know!)though we were too shy to shy to say hello, though Paul did say hello to Boris Johnson in Ceasars, he looked just like on the telly - dazed & confused. We have been total tourists ...

Home sweet Home
Aug 16, 2008

Ahhh, home again, my puppy Jasmine is as excited to see me as ever!!!! Here are some of my after thoughts of this trip and Peru in general: 1)  It is definitely one of my TOP trips, the sights such as Machu Picchu and Cusco are just Amazing. ...

Everybody goes to Hollywood
Aug 31, 2003 (3 photos)

... at 5am to a Bucks Fizz breakfast. That is the States done and our first coutry conquered. I had a brilliant time in the States and will never generalise about America again as it is a million countries in one. It has some of the nicest cities with ...

Why are gas or petrol prices rising? Dumb answers
Jul 15, 2008

As you may or not know, we are running out of oil on this planet. Yes, that's right. It's about time we found another planet or two for all us. In the meantime, we've got to put up higher gas prices at the pump. China increased its prices 16-18% last ...

Where the Helicopters have cameras....
Sep 8, 2005

Some pics, entry to follow

Universal Studio Fun
Feb 4, 2007 (20 photos)

Today was a day we have been looking forward to for quite a while.  Today we headed to Universal Studios.  There were so many cool things to do there we didn't know where to start but finally decided on the 4D movie based on the movie Shrek.& ...

Super Bowl Sunday
Feb 4, 2007 (4 photos)

With my brain cursing me I woke up to a breakfast of biscuits and gravy, not talking some digestives with bistro but a US cooked breakfast with American-style biscuits and a type of thick gravy made from, actually no idea but was just what was needed this ...

My Initial Itinerary
Aug 22, 2007

... going snowboarding in the Alps) Paris, France (X-Mas) Amsterdam, Netherlands (NYE) Edingburgh, Scotland Back to London  Los Angeles - 1/8/07   Again, this is merely a draft and it can change completely from head to toe.  I certainly ...

One full loop round the world
Feb 8, 2008

Well we finally made it back to the States on a stopover, one full loop around the world!  But we aren't quite done yet though.  The Dominican Republic is next on our list, but there was no direct flight from Fiji!  We couldn't even fly ...

Introducing Carlie
Feb 1, 2007 (6 photos)

After having a long long sleep the day before, we had to be up at 6AM to meet Carlie, Megan's sister, at the airport.  Eventually after seeing her come out last from the arrival gate we headed off to catch the train to the new hotel in Hollywood!& ...

Recap
Sep 6, 2004

... . I do hope to go back. Having my final morning sorted by Dave and meeting Ellis on his lunch break, I caught the greyhound to Los Angeles. The view on the way up the coast, consisted on beach on one side and housing on the other, but aside from that, ...

Leaving tomorrow.
Dec 14, 2004 (2 photos)

Rachel: Jodie, are you packed yet? Jodie: Are you kidding? We don't leave for another 19.5 hours. And so it begins. (Well, it actually began in February.... we were living in a tiny little (but cute) apartment in Madison, WI- tearfully enjoying ...

A shopping mall where you can also fly from
Jul 1, 2009

These days airports are more like shopping malls. Have you ever missed your flight because it has taken so long to navigate your way through the stores to get to your gate? Have you ever been to this SkyMall? http://www.kasperhauser.com/skymaul_site/ ...

LA
Aug 5, 2008 (9 photos)

LA is a monster. It could eat you up; spit you out and it's clear that it's done that to many people already. Never seen so many daoine as a mheabhair in all my life..not even in NYC. It's basically many cities in one massive suburb so a car is essential ...

Shiny Metal Guy
Feb 3, 2007 (9 photos)

All you can make pancakes for breakfast seemed like a fitting way to wake up on my first full day in America, could still have done with a muffin though. Met a Chinese guy, whose name I never got, while munching on my third and best pancake attempt who ...