America's Best Inn Dubuque

We'll drive a rental car to O'Hare airport this afternoon (Monday). We fly non-stop from Chicago to Delhi (15 hours) and then have a short layover and a flight to Hyderabad, arriving at 3 a.m. Wednesday morning local time. We don't get a Tuesday, so it's a good thing November 3 isn't our anniversary! I will try to update as often as I can, but I'm not in control of the schedule, so in the meantime you can pray:<br><br>Spiritual Lives<br>*That we would ...

... Nate. The drive was all good until two blocks before the hotel where the road merged from to lanes to one and I didn't quite adjust properly. The kerb won and I got some air much to Mark's horror and Kym's laughter. The very next block there was a police car which was somehow hidden from our view. Phew! Mark and Kym did a quick check when we got out. I just walked off :p<br><br>The brekky hall at the Embassy Suites was PACKED... turns out everyone slept in! Everyone dived for ...

... Catherine at Globeaware told me on my way to Machu Picchu they have a lot of pick pocketers. I know I will be ok, but it makes me think. I am really excited to see Jose - it has been almost 10 years. I am excited to spend time with the kids. I am excited. So I head to my last day of work. I also have a bunch to do. But tomorrow I go. Here I come Peru.<br>

Memphis, TN to Dubuque, Iowa<br><br>Next morning got in some early morning hiking and managed to get access to some beautiful areas that were just getting the morning sun. Got back in the Xterra and drove to the other side of the park that borders the Mississippi to find the starting of the Black Eye Susan&#8217;s. This is also a great stopping point for a number of butterflies as they head southward over the border.<br><br ...

LOCATION: Dubuque Arboretum and Botanical Gardens, 3800 Arboretum Dr. | 6:30pm | No Admission<br><br><br>(Enter from the west on Hwy. 20. Go to stoplight with Olive Garden on right. Turn left on JFK Road. Proceed through town two miles. Turn right on 32nd Street, left on Arboretum Drive. Enter Arboretum to south side.)<br><br>RAIN SITE: Hempstead High School

... many in the US play this every day but these two played in a bedroom with no closets or anything else for that matter to hide behind and they were grinning from ear to ear. The innocence...oh how I had more of that. On the night before I left I gave them some toothpaste and toothbrushes, along with some hotel shampoo and conditioner. To see this family so excited nearly brought tears to my eyes. Then to see Salen ...

Well another day and another day away from my head. It was better, but I am still not back to normal mentality. How does this work. How do I go to another country and be and then come home and go back to normal. Because for me normal seems like a thing of the past. I keep thinking about that Google logo, with ...

... cried to her about this weird feeling. She wanted me to explain it. I said it is just very hard. She said maybe I should write about what I am feeling. She said that this is the experience I needed for me. And that maybe I found the real JIll. She said I need to process it all. But how really does someone process it. I don't know how to do it. I don't know maybe I am realizing that I am not content - maybe I need more than ...

Again, Welcome! This first post will be my initial attempt to feel out how this blog will work. Future posts will more than likely model anything from a journal entry to a story forum to a method of providing humor to my readers. This is my first time "blogging" and pretty much my first real attempt at journaling all together. Anyway ...

... time. It was breakfast time. We landed in Los Angeles at 7am on Tuesday, August 16th. The exact same time in history that we got up. We left Los Angeles at noon on Tuesday, August 16th. I saw Professor Tomkovitz, my first year Criminal Law Professor there. We arrived in Chicago at 6:30pm on Tuesday, August 16th. We ate dinner. It was ok. We had a half hour delay in Chicago. We left Chicago at 9:30pm on Tuesday ...