We are now on board our return flight from Panama City to LAX, it's about 10p Panama time, 8p LA time, which means we have 4 more hours in the air!  (Flight is 7 hours overall·)   We did make it to Panama Viejo today!  It was interesting, though we can't say it really blew us away or anything.  The best part was meeting a you...

After much uncharacteristic indecisiveness about where to go, Nath and I decided to head somewhere warmer for Easter as we were craving some sun. So after work on Thursday, we boarded a plane bound for Los Angeles! LA was never that high on my list of places to visit - I guess I thought it would just be another US city with lots of pollution and...

Now I realize that I probably should have been writing while actually ON this trip, but unfortunately the availability of wi-fi connections was anything but plentiful (especially if I wanted it for free). It is my humble opinion without naming names (Hilton Checkers Hotel, LA) that if a hotel is charging you upwards of $150/night, they should no...

Dazed and disoriented, the party stumbles off the platform into a bustling terminal. Sticking together to avoid losing each other in the smog the heroic trio finds no aid from the deceptively kind looking old man, and are forced to make their own way through the concrete jungle to the magical kingdom.

... in the airport again, different one this time ... now in LAX waiting for flight to Brisbane. The 50th SPE ATCE is finished and I'm glad to be heading back to the real world after having spent 4 days in the Disney area ... ... a 15 hour overnight flight to Brisbane awaits ... its actually going to be the first time Ive flown across the Pacifi...

Hello family and friends, Tonight I'm embarking on a one-week trip to Peru (Lima and Cusco). My plan is to blog my adventures on this trip. So, why blog on such a short-trip? I blog for several reasons. First to practice on my writing (I'm a horrible writer), second to keep records of where I've been and where I'm going, to update my family and ...

We are in our home away from home, the Summerfield Suites on our last day in the US for a while -- we leave tonight for Sydney for a 4 day vacation before heading to 'The Alice' on Friday to start our new life in the outback. We are nervous and anxious and excited all at the same time and today we plan on lounging at the pool and seeing a movie ...

Got up early and found a great place to eat breakfast near Shinagawa station. Rochelle had already purchased tickets for the ride to Narita Airport. We originally planned to take the train but we couldn't handle dragging all our stuff through more train stations and the cost and convenience of the airport bus was worth eliminating addi...

It's 3 a.m. and I'm just getting to bed.  Well, the couch was more like it. I looked at my empty room and did some last minute packing.  I had been out with friends singing and dancing away my last night in Texas.  In a few hours, I was to be on an 11 o'clock flight to Los Angeles to meet up with my mother, sister, and a steady he...

The Los Angeles airport is so freaking big and annoying when it comes to trying to get from the domestic to the international terminal. It means going through security twice, checking in, twice, and generally having all the fun of going to an airport, twice.