Once we arrived in Amsterdam, we managed to find the tax free cashier where we got a refund of 170 €, considering the amount of stuff we bought! We then took the train (where there are some very interesting people) into Amsterdam to walk around for another couple of hours and grab that last Pannekoeok and look at the Magic Mushroom stores (...

Amsterdam the red light was calling us, it was time to take the one hour train trip to Amsterdam central. The live earth concert was on in Wester Park with an all dutch line up. Jekyll and Hyde were first up and we were just to bear witness to the craze phoneima Jump Style! Young children, teenagers, parents and parents of parents all found room...

The "Flying Pig" sums it up. Not only the name of Amsterdam's most famous hostel, but how I feel flying around Europe, doing my part to melt the polar ice caps. I feel a little sick. But Amsterdam once again proves to lighten and enlighten, and I feel that just maybe, there is hope for our planets future. I guess its just ours I'm not sure about...

Deep down I know I'm ready to go home, but I head home with a sense of trepidation. After everything I've been through I am kind of nervous that I will get home and want to get back on the road again... I've got use to this type of living. Even though my new found finances probably don't permit returning to roaming RTW (thanks to yet another 3% ...

Dedicated to Isaac Sinclair Henson, born on Wednesday, March 22, 2006 with highest prayers & congratulations to the proud parents, Allison Borders & Chad Henson in Oxford, Mississippi It's been a very busy week and I'm running a little bit behind on my reports, so I'll try to catch up tonight before the next week starts in the morning. I have to...

We are stealing an idea from Chris and Melanie who decided to allow their visitors to write T-Pod entries. This will allow you to see A'dam through someone else's eyes, plus it will give us a week off =) The following was written by Julie's father, Marty, about his and Julie's mother's first visit to A'dam. ============================== Lynn an...

In Amsterdam, the main train station, the Centraal Station, is a huge building; by huge, I mean it isn't just walls and a roof; it's built like a state capital building or a congressional building. It is the biggest building in Amsterdam; the main landmark. Frequently, we depended on its main tower as a navigational point when we were walking a...

Sitting in the somewhat brighter window seat of the coffeehouse - half cowhide/leather seats 3/4 around a a round table nailed to the floor. Watching the overcast, grey, wet, cold rainy life move by the windows, stoned young men attempting to follow conversations. The bartender commented to the men smoking a bowl, 'getting started early eh?' to ...