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Saint Paul Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Saint Paul, United States
The Journey begins
Today we'll be flying into Rome, arriving tomorrow morning to meet up with four fellow cruisers to share a shuttle to Civitavecchia. Pray for good weather, safe journey and a relaxing and enjoyable time. Pray that our mind and ...
Third Culture Kids - Adults of the Recession
Homewood Suites said they only have Smoking Rooms available, but not to worry they promised me. So when I land and live there for 3 weeks we will see. I'll be flying Delta/NorthWest. I love travel and meeting new people. I am grateful to be working ...
Ready to Leave
It is the morning of my trip. I think I am ready to go. I had to buy some last minute items like a mini-tape recorder for my classes. Mom and I are the only ones at home since Curt and dad left for Milwaukee yesterday and Becky is traveling around ...
Leaving
Leaving St. Paul on the 12, hoping to arrive in Sleepy Hollow around the 30th. Wisconsin - 5 days - 340 miles Michigan - 4 days - 260 miles Ontario - 3 days - 203 miles NY West to East 5 days- 366 miles NY North to South 2 days - 130 miles roughly 1300 ...
Day 0
My dad and me are leaving for my uncle Brooks's tonight, we will start with Sarah, Carter, and Brooks! ...
City of 10,000 parks in a state of 10,000 lakes !
... our first Menards ! In St. Paul we were so happy to see Sean’s UW PA colleague Kitty Earl and her husband Paul, who is a sustainability engineer for General Mills -- yes, you have him to thank for the 100% recycled and recyclable paperboard ...
Leaving Home (SSP)
The fun and socialization of the night before was now in the past. I said my "goodbye's" and "thank-you's" to my grandpa, good friends who will always be there for me, relatives, and Tiffany's family. It wasn't as hard to say these parting ...
Home sweet home
We are home safe and sound I am also updating the previous entries with pictures... not all the way done yet but getting ...
So long MN, see you when the snow's gone
Hey All! I'm about to ship off on my second wonderful adventure.... This time to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic! (NOT Spain again, as is the common misconception) In my quest to learn Spanish, and I mean really LEARN it, this seemed ...
Bike Trip Wrap up
Thank you for helping and supporting us on our trip everyone is home and good!! Thanks for reading this blog! With a total of 172 miles and only a few scraps and Sarah Carter counted a total of about 35 road kill!!! ...
Almost ready to go!
Getting ready for this exciting trip! Almost ready to go! Hopefully I'll get to update this as we ...
Ice Carving
I was lucky enough to be in Downtown Saint Paul for the Ice Carving contest. Some of the stuff was looking pretty cool. It is amazinng the work that can be done with chainsaws and ice ...
First leg of the joirney
At the St.Paul/Minneapolis airport. Most of the people around me are speaking English, one group is speaking Hmong. I'm paying special attention to what it feels like to "blend in" as I'm on a journey where, for the first time in my life, I will learn ...
Home again
We would have missed our flight if we had checked bags. I thought we left at 725 but we left at 7. As usual, our gate was the absolute farthest away from security any gate could be and we arrived as they were boarding. That makes 2 screwups ...
Almost ready
The bags are 99% packed. And the paperwork is 99% organized. I have washed dishes and picked up around the house. I made sure Dad's bills were caught up and waited up to make sure the Tooth Fairy was all set. It was so cool.. Elizabeth lost a ...
"I Can't Believe It's Happening!"
As our team met for the last time to finalize details before we fly across the pond, Jaime said "I can't believe it's happening!" So much preparation and work has gone into this trip. As team members, the beginning of this process started ...
"What do I stand for? What do I stand for?"
Today I traveled all over the Twin Cities visiting many places that reminded me of memories from my childhood. I went to the University of Minnesota to visit my Mom at work at the Campus Club and had a lovely lunch with her outside on the patio. I then ...
The Night Before...
'twas the night before travel, and...well I'm sick. As a dog. A sick dog. I figured I would put up a pre-trip blog to give everyone (and by everyone I mean mom and the two other random people who might read this) a glimpse into what packing for an ...
Twins Win!
soooo I I am testing out my blog before I head off to Europe, I thought I already did a test blog with Eggener but apparently no one got it.... so this is Take Two! This last week-end I went to the Lovely state of Minnesota to celebrate my Dad's Birthday ...
Huey says goodbye
Huey's owners will be taking me to the airport for my 5:45 am flight tomorrow. They are true ...
Thoughts
"Nulle pierre ne peut être polie sans friction, nul homme ne peut parfaire son expérience sans épreuve". "No stone cannot be polished without friction, no man can perfect experience without ...
Bemidji --> St. Paul
... Not books. So we had to do it. My self timer worked -- believe it or not!! :-D Country Inn & Suites By Carlson St. Paul South -- $104.00 BookBreak package -- included a backpack for each boy with activity books, pencil, swim goggles, snacks, ...
4 days until departure
This is my first entry to this blog attempt. As the next 20 weeks pass, I will either get better at the process or give it up. I will now try to get the addresses and contacts in order, if you don't want to be on the blog list, you will probably ...
The plans are final.
... deposit for my fall study program in Namibia is turned in, and my acceptance for study at the University of Maastricht with Macalester in the Netherlands should be coming tomorrow. For now, I'm in Saint Paul, MN, a few more weeks of school ...