Americas Best Value Inn & Suites-Glen Rose

Our day started early at about 8:00 AM when we left Arlington in a caravan to drive to the wildlife park for a private tour arranged by Michele and her friend, Tricia, who works there. 19 of us squeezed into an open truck and were given a wonderful tour of this 1800 acre park dedicated to preserving endangered wildlife, many of which were exotic ...

Today was definitely not the day to improve our carbon footprint on this earth. While generally we do try to conserve energy, plant veggies in our garden as organically as we possibly can, compost, recycle, etc. today was not the day for environmental love. Geoff and I departed our house at around 7am to make it to the Dallas Sewell Hummer dealership by 8 to join a 60 car convoy to Glen Rose, Texas, a 2 hour ...

Today I start my trip....and after a late night of cramming 30 pounds of **** into a 10 pound bag, I think I'm ready. It's time I was finally honest with myself...I pack like a princess on the Titanic. Paris Hilton packs less for a year long trip than I do for a 3 month trip. No offense to princesses or Paris, but I'm quite sure they don't try to do a trip like this with 2 pair of shoes and a pair of sandals. So, what pray ...

My buddy and co-worker Sang asked if he could host a going away party at his condo overlooking the Katy Trail so my friends could wish me well. What he was really asking is if I needed someplace to bring all my wine, booze, beer and food over so that everyone could drink it and I wouldn't ...

It was a very punishing day today! Up at 5am, on the road by 6:15am. Drove all day in 100°F temperatures but had no idea because the winds were 23 mph!! Unfortunately, those winds were not behind us, which means that the gas is going thru Blue like green corn thru the new maid! Anyway, we drove around OKC and headed west to the campground I *wanted* to stay at but did not necessarily have a reservation to stay at... oops. No room at the inn. So we had to ...

Since several of you have asked what I'm doing and where I'll be over the next three months so you can potentially look at meeting me somewhere on this journey, I thought I would try to at least come up with a tentative schedule/timeline. This is very, very tentative as I just purchased guidebooks this week for the countries I'll be visiting. What is known is the where I'll be the first 6 weeks...and ...

Have you ever looked at all your possessions and wondered how and the hell you came to have so much ****? As I start packing up my apartment, I'm shocked with how much stuff I really have...including some clothes that I swear I haven't worn since the 80's (at least I hope I haven't worn tapered acid washed jeans recently). Anyway...if you're into late 80's and 90's fashion styles...then I suggest you get your ass over to ...

So...here I sit...in my office...less than 7 days after returning from a 3 week trip to Latvia, Estonia, Finland and Russia. These are my last two weeks at Deloitte before taking the plunge and starting a 3 months leave of absence. My parents think I'm crazy, my local friends are happy for me (read: jealous) and my international friends are wondering why I'm making such a big deal of this trip. During my travels ...

August 1, 2006 Well, here I sit in Tulsa, at the friendly Saab dealer. The 'check engine' light came on this morning and I called my car dealer who said it could be anything from a loose gas cap on up. So when I made Tulsa, I started searching for a dealer, and found one. Ah well, The Prince (car's name) has done relatively well thus far so I can't complain. Two hours later, yup, the gas cap sensor wasn't ...

... of ambassador trip, and several of them decided that the area next to our row was a chat room. If you've ever seen the cell phone commercials where they test the minutes packages by letting a teenage girl yak away as the minutes tick away-she and 3 of her friends were no more than 2 feet away for at least 2 hours.