Monroe, United States Travel Blogs

Home - Monroe, WA
Mar 21, 2005

I'm back home from Australia, I'm hoping to go back very soon though, I'm just awaiting a spousal visa to be approved. Which hopefully will be soon, I miss my husband!

hiking up and sliding down
Sep 29, 2008 (12 photos)

Today deciding that we'd had enough laziness (not really) we went for a hike. Nice enough until I made the decision to go up this huge steep hill. We walked along while I wondered how I'd get back down that huge hill. After another series of small hills ...

On the Road to Paris - Make that On the Interstate
Nov 26, 2008 (1 photos)

... for Thanksgiving.  Some things are much more important than the Rules of the Road. We are staying at the Marriott Courtyard in Monroe, Louisiana tonight.  Monroe is the logical stopping point on trios between Atlanta and Dallas.  We have ...

Packing!
Sep 1, 2007 (1 photos)

Well I'm packing. One and half days left to go...

hot springs and my 28th birthday!!
Sep 27, 2008 (11 photos)

my birthday!! what a great present, to be at the springs!

Cramming In
Aug 18, 2006 (3 photos)

... I'm beaming, my grandkids all are really SMART. Oops, now we're hungry. Did I build lunchtime into our schedule? The traffic in Monroe isn't moving. Good grief please show us a sign. Ah, there it is, the golden arches of Mickey D's. It feels good to ...

Back in the room with two tiers
Aug 24, 2006 (41 photos)

**This is not a public diary. I just don't want to pay the money to make it private** Yes I haven't written in a while. There was too much going on. I don't think anyone really reads this anyway. A therapist I saw twice suggested I have Seasonal Affected ...

Gone to say c-ya to my family!
May 8, 2007

Im off to say goodbye to my family and Im off for South American. As they say "you aint got ta go home but you gotta da hell outta here'

Warren Ends His West Africa Trip Differently
Jan 11, 2008 (18 photos)

Dream Rating:          ; ; ; ;  A-   Background  I was back in New Jersey for almost a week when I had this dream.  I spent most of the day thoroughly engaged in managing my trip photos ...

Warren Goes To Tbilisi, Georgia
Jan 18, 2008 (25 photos)

Dream Rating:          ; ; ; ; ;  A- Background  Having taken my last Lariam pill only four nights earlier, I am essentially still on it even though I have finished the course.  Thus, I am ...

Warren and Nina Hike to a Lake in Austria
Jan 22, 2008 (15 photos)

Dream Rating:          ; ;  C+   Background  This is one of the last dreams I can recall and took place about a week and a half after I took my last Lariam pill.  Perhaps the effects were ...

Warren, Corporate Recuiters, and Trailers
Jan 17, 2008 (27 photos)

Dream Rating:          ; ;  B   Background  I had been back home in  New Jersey for nearly two weeks.  This dream took place a few days after I took my last Lariam pill.   The ...

Introduction
Sep 19, 2007 (2 photos)

Lariam (also known as Mefloquine) is one of the oldest and most widely prescribed malaria prophylactics, and is also considered to be one of the effective.  It is known, however, for having some serious psychological side effects in a small ...

Warren Attends an Andre Rieu Concert in Bruges
Jan 20, 2008 (27 photos)

... TV that night must have drawn out memories of that part of my family, even though I knew them entirely in the United States.  I should mention that the door I broke down in my dream bore an incredible resemblance to the beautiful blue-painted doors ...

Warren Has a Great Time in Vienna
Jan 13, 2008 (37 photos)

Dream Rating:          ; ; ;  A-   Background  I had been home in New Jersey over a week.  I took my last lariam pill (my 16th, I believe) earlier in the evening, so I was destined to ...

Warren Goes on a Night Hike With Two Friends
Jan 10, 2008 (10 photos)

Dream Rating:          ; ;  B   Background  I had been back home at my parents house in New Jersey for a few days mostly playing catch up for the time I was away.   The Dream  It ...

Warren & Friends Visit The Himba People and Prague
Jan 7, 2008 (44 photos)

Dream Rating:          ;   A   Background  When I had this dream I had been home from Africa for two days and was just beginning to settle in, doing things like catching up on mail as ...

Warren and Friends Are Attacked in Kenya
Jan 6, 2008 (53 photos)

Dream Rating:          ; ;  A   Background  This dream took place just over a day after I arrived back from Africa.  I spent the day going through months worth of mail and getting caught ...

Some Concluding Thoughts on the Lariam Experience
Feb 12, 2008 (6 photos)

... Africa.  Rather, the settings of many of the dreams were places like Europe, China, and parts of the United States that I researched myself and traveled in independently.  I believe such places consequently made stronger impressions on me than ...

Warren and Scott Enter A Business Partnership
Jan 15, 2008 (34 photos)

Dream Rating:          ; ;  B+   Background  I had been home a week and a half and was starting to think about doing some job hunting.  My day was spent mostly at home and was quite ...

Warren Argues and Drives Through Nebraska
Jan 9, 2008 (12 photos)

Dream Rating:          ; ;  C-   Background  I had been back home at my parents house in New Jersey for a few days mostly playing catch up for the time I was away.   The Dream  I ...

Warren Visits London and Stays at a Hostel
Jan 12, 2008 (16 photos)

Dream Rating:          ; ;  C+   Background  I had been back home in New Jersey for about a week at the time of this dream.  I spent much of the day writing my memoirs including the start ...

Warren Goes to Navajoland and New York
Jan 14, 2008 (30 photos)

Dream Rating:          ; ; ; ;  B+   Background  I had been home for about a week and a half when I had this dream, which took place one day after I took my last Lariam pill.  I had been ...

Warren Adopts a Survivalist Lifestyle in the Woods
Jan 8, 2008 (14 photos)

Dream Rating:          ; ; ;  C+   Background  I had been back home at my parents' house in New Jersey for several nights.  My elderly father keeps it uncomfortably warm in the house to ...

Warren Spies at San Francisco Airport
Jan 20, 2008 (34 photos)

Dream Rating:          ;  B+   Background  This dream took place exactly one week after I took my last Lariam pill.  My days before it took place were quite sedate and mostly spent ...

Warren in the Gulag, Mongolia, and Lithuania
Jan 16, 2008 (60 photos)

Dream Rating:          ;   A   Background  I spent most of the day at home reading and writing.  Nothing very notable took place.   The Dream  My dream on this night ...

Warren Tries To Get Into A Sculpture Exhibit
Jan 23, 2008 (6 photos)

Dream Rating:          ; ; ; ;  D+   Background  This was the last dream I can recall and took place about a week after I took my last Lariam pill.   The Dream  There were two ...

Afterthoughts On West Africa
Jan 26, 2008 (3 photos)

The day before I left Africa to fly back to the U.S., I was watching CNN News in my room.  The results of the Iowa Presidential Caucuses were being reported and analyzed to death by every talking head able to run his mouth.  Iowa and the other ...

Off and running
Jul 28, 2008

Day 2 of riding. Stopping at Best Buy. Going to see if I can find a camera mount for my bike to try and record my ride through deals gap later today. Getting a later start than I wanted but I still should be able to stay on schedule.

Introduction - Why West Africa?
Sep 19, 2007 (2 photos)

Now you might be wondering, of all the places in the world to go, why West Africa?  "Isn't it an especially poor and dangerous place?" you might be wondering.  "I've never heard of anything there to see," you might be thinking.  "So, you're ...