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Pekin Slideshow
Top Hotels in Pekin
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Concorde Inn and Suites Pekin
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Econo Lodge & Suites Pekin
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Pekin/Peoria Area
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Classic Friendship Inn Pekin
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Travel Blogs from Pekin, United States
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I need to remember to take more pictures!
... me in Jim Benson's car, the founder of World Team Sports who is with us for the next couple of days. We made it into Pekin, got to our hotel and assigned rooms. Carl and Jeremy showed up soon afterwords and we were able to unload bags pretty quickly. We ...
First Stop: A very confusing short story
Over the course of this past week, I have encountered several different characters and settings on my reading travels. My nose has constantly been in short story after short story. Today I traveled to a destination unknown with my assigned short story ...
How to Catch a Vampire in Medieval Times...
... 19, I grew up in Pekin, IL, and I'm a nut-case! So I'm pretty fun. I guess I'll tell you a little about myself. I went to Pekin High, where I participated in Show Choir and Speech Team. I love to sing, I love to dance, I love to read and write. Most of my ...
My Unexpected education
Well this past week I had a blast hanging out with Mike and Gillian traveling around the country trying to help Mike come to grips with what we know to be called the “human condition”, this crazy rat race we call life on Earth. It was quite ...
Cultural Opportunity 1: St. Louis Art Museum
A few weeks ago on dreary day in St. Louis with my girlfriend and we decided we were going to visit the St. Louis art museum. Our original plan was to visit Six Flags for the day but the rain deterred us from that plan and we decided to visit the art ...
Cultural Opportunity 2: Wilde
Over the last week I watched the movie Wilde. The movie covers Oscar Wilde's marriage, family life, and also his homosexual life. The reason why I watched this movie is that I have always had a large interest in Oscar Wilde as he was a genius in writing ...
Old and New Friends
Hello again fellow travelers had a fun, hectic, and exhilarating week just past. As well as my planed activities through my agent, I embarked on an extended side trip to see my old friend “The Man from Mars”(Stranger in a Strange Land). It ...
Fun in the Fountains!
... would be fun to take the kids out to what they call "the fountain park". It's called Riverside Park, and it's located in Pekin, just across the river from Peoria and only about a 20 minute drive from their house. The park has a playground, a ...
In my own litte world
A little background on myself seems appropriate at this point, so here goes. Grew up here in Peoria and surrounding environs for the first twenty years of my life. Mostly playing as much golf year round, even in winter time, reading every bit of Robert ...
My dual trips
This past week I have been hanging out with Michael and Jubal at Jubals’ house trying to help Mike understand what it means to be ‘human’, which let me tell you is no easy thing. Have you ever tried to explain to someone why one ...
Old Magic by Marianne Curly
... bored and turned my attention to the assignment. It wasn’t difficult; I had done more complicated assignments in sophomore year at Pekin High. A loud CRASH had me jumping from my seat – I hadn’t realized that one of the bigger, stronger, ...
Cultural Opportunity 3:Galaxy Song
Since I sadly found out I could not make it to the Shakespeare play at the last minute or make it to concert, I'm going to write about one of my favorite songs and explain how it could be a new genre in lyrics The song is called the Galaxy Song and it's ...
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