Budget Host Inn Owatonna

Alrighty... Here I am. It's 8:03 PM, and I should be heading to bed by 9 if I wish to get my full 8 hours of sleep. I'll be waking up at 5 to chat with Katherine on Skype quick, and then I'll be getting ready like a sheep. A really really busy sheep. We're heading off to begin one helluva journey (sort of like the band Journey, only better) at 6...

So, yeah. With less than two weeks left before my departure, I decided it was about time to begin studying up on my modern Greek, using the two language books I received for Christmas. Last night, I began by acquainting myself with the alphabet and consonant and vowel sounds. The alphabet was easy enough, seeing as it's the same from ancient Gre...

We didn't get this posted yesterday because Dad doesn't have Internet access out on the farm. This will be a short entry. We had a nice albeit quick visit with Dad. We did get a chance to run into town for a nice dinner with Dad for his birthday. (about a week late). His neighbor lady Edie popped over for a quick chat, it was good to see her aga...

Oh man what a long walk, took the whole summer to escape the castle dungeon. At our last posting we had run out of water and were in great suffering of pain and woe but then a small gnome like creature crossed our path. At first I though it was a halucination. How could a small gnome carry such a large pot of water? I drank 3 gallons and made co...

Here we are on our travel day to our beginning point of the SUPERIOR hike. Due to certain concerns our Hike Date has been advanced by one week. Traveling from Faribault Minnesota northward to Beaver Bay we will stop in Duluth for an Air Show and procurement of groceries. Traveling on from Duluth we hope to check in to the Inn At Beaver Bay. Room...

Father Kevin has returned from Panajachel so everyone is home from the 3rd annual trip to St. Francis of Assisi parish. He spent six hours a days with a tutor at one of the Spanish language schools. There is an option to live with a local family as Bill did. Fr. Kevin chose to live at the parish house of the Carmelite priests who administer to t...

So here we are in the beginning. In the beginning there was training for the hike. Backpacker Bob said, "Let there be a hike." so there will be a hike. Hikeboy said, "Let me train for the hike." So there is training for the hike. Backpacker Bob trains by hauling large logs cut down by hobby lumberman Doctor Dave. Hikeboy trains each day by climb...

Statistical analysis of the weeks exertions: Mileage this week: 495.9 miles Mileage so far: 2550.1 Hours ridden in total darkness: 3 Am I half way across? Officially, yes. Did I get to any earth-shattering speeds? No, because South Dakota is lacking in the hill department. I topped out at 29.7mph. Ooh, speed demon!! Was it hot? Fluctuating is th...

The train ride back to Winnipeg was very different from the ride up. Now we had 9 friends to hang out with. Four of us were in coach (Me, Julie, Katherine, and Wally). Annette, Charlotte, Marilyn, Deborah, Jan, Tom, and Morgan all had berths. Katherine was really half-coach and half-berthed because Tom and Jan had 3 beds in their little suite an...

I've finally began my training accademically. I'm studying practical Christian Theology with an emphasis on Cross-Cultural Anthropology. This is the kind of stuff that's going to keep me going through life. The Anthropology stuff is going to help me in my travels. I'm really going to need to buckle down in the semesters to get as much as I can o...