Toronto Hostels - Reviews and Rates

Alas, this is my last blog entry for our trip and it saddens me. The blog has come to be a wonderful opportunity to share our experiences and feelings with you, and concurrently, to provide a trip journal for ourselves for the days when our minds will have turned into applesauce.

I can't adequately convey the complexity of emotions I'm f...

Ready for a nap. Staying up til 4:30am was fun but I was asleep by 8:30 last night and up at 6am today. So, nap and then Starbucks - yummy. Oh, and I'm probably tired from running 3.5 miles and doing weights this morning, then strolling around downtown Toronto. :)

Well Nikki and I have done our two presentations....and they loved us! Yes this completely unbiased assessment of our performance will be backed up by Nikki. Our 90 minute workshop flew by. By the end of it they had experienced a little of what it was like to be part of the collaborative that we run in NZ. They tried out some of the tools we use...

Well, we left Friday morning from a spot near Madison Wisconsin and started for Chicago, Illinois (or Ill-a-noise as Mom calls it). I decided I'd give Mom the 10¢ tour (what with all my prior knowledge of Chicago, having worked there 10 years ago for 4 days - lol). Unfortunately, our little detour cost us a few hours because of the incredible tr...

Arrived in Toronto today, took about an hour and a half drive from Niagara Falls. The drive was a little bit hairy, we drove (or rather Lee drove) from Niagara Falls via the QEW (Queen Elizabeth Way) which is more or less like the M1 but a lot bigger. Highlight of the trip was seeing a sign for Islington Avenue. Very childish but I had to take a...

In a few short weeks (53 days to be exact), I will be heading to Japan where I will spend the next 5 months, living with my good friend, Eve, in Fukushima- a city about 2 hours north of Tokyo by shinkansen (bullet train). I'll be brushing up on some handy Japanese phrases and preparing to immerse myself in Japanese culture. This travelogue will ...

I've begun French lessons. I can't decide whether I'm quite pleased with my French to date, or if I think my ability resides nearer atrocious. Three hours of private lessons and a quick refresh of grade 9 & 10 from mlle. Raygen (in addition to the years of study I did as a child) gets me placed in beginner level three, which I think is terrible ...

So after a hundred revisions to our itinerary ... Juan and I have come to a final rough draft ... and soon we'll be writing our very own "motorcycle diaries" minus the motorcycle and Gael Garcia Bernal [sorry ladies!] BUT i've got Don Juan riding with me!!! We already got our E-tickets for a flight out of Toronto on the 5th of January! [3 weeks ...

Hello everyone ... Ahhhh ... there's no place like home. I'm very happy to be back. I got back in on the 9th of September, and I've been chilling out in Simcoe. I just moved up to Toronto today. I met up with Chris, who took a bus up here from Chicago. We are located at 390 Queen's Quay, Apt. 1803. A housewarming is definitely in the plans, as s...

From Ormond Beach, we went back to Orlando and took a flight to Toronto. Toronto was only a very brief two hour stop over, long enough to briefly meet my very close friend from undergraduate university, Fabian Seibert.