Chalet Motor Lodge Council Bluffs

Happy birthday Nick! 25 years young. Unfortunately on his birthday we had to drive 10 hours. We left at 11am to Warrensburg, MO to deliver our bunnies, Maggie and Sam to Kristin. She is a nice girl who responded to my craiglist ad to foster our bunnies. She has ...

Heute ist Erntedankfest und ich bin gerade nicht in Denver. Mein Vater, meine stiefmutter, meine kleine schwester und ich sind nach Omaha Nebraska gefarhen. Das ist einen anderen Bundland hier in Amerika, ungefahr 8 stunden nord-ost von Denver. Wir sind gestern nachmittag angekommen. Wir wollten doch früher in Omaha sein aber meine eltern waren beim schlafen, als ich um 4 uhr morgen bei denen war. Sie haben gesagt, halb fünf werden wir losfarhen ...

... crushes the fear! I encourage any of my friends to join me on any part of the trip, but I have always been independent and will have to trust my instincts. The only downside is I have to skip certain countries I would love to see, simply b/c traveling as a single female is too dangerous. I hope this blog will help you in planning future trips and I can't wait to start blogging on the road! Stay posted for schedule updates.

... are some insights from these three locations that I had not visited before.

The Western Historic Trails Center: The temperature outside was 107 degrees when we visited. Naturally, the Choir and Orchestra were either inside the theater, exhibit, gift shop or stayed on the bus. To carry on with the “gift shop frenzy” (the phenomenon where tour participants descend like locusts on unsuspecting gift shops and clean out store shelves)- here are a few items I saw for ...

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square continued this year’s memorable tour across the vast, fertile plains of the mid-western U.S. as we traveled to Omaha, Nebraska on the morning of Tuesday, June 23, 2009 for the Choir’s first visit to Omaha since 1967. Long an important transportation center for the U.S., Omaha is the historic home of the Union Pacific Railroad. Union Pacific was one of the two railroad companies which built ...

... I'll just explain the benefits (overall) of a global economy, and the relative merits of my Suzuki compared to their air-cooled, pushrod pieces of vintage 50's engineering, and that should clear everything up. Or if worse comes to worst, I can sure as hell outrun 'em. Harley bikers are like kids in a playground gang - really cool 1 on 1, but they don't know you when they're in a group. More on bikers to come.

A note about the map. Our return trip took us from Lima to Miami to Dallas and to Omaha. Rather than cover the routing as on the out bound flights I will just show it as Lima to Omaha. I only wish it had been that straight forward.

We were up in the middle of the night for our tour operator to pick us up at 0420 to go to the airport. All that went pretty well and we even found our departure tax or extortion, as Jim likes to ...

... appreciated the help.



Brian took us to the airport where we met the Kings. After checking in we all had lunch together...Jim, Carol, Chad, Todd, Joyce, Brian, and me. After lunch the boys took off and we headed to security. Our plane was a little late leaving, but nothing major.

We are to leave tomorrow and it is snowing in Omaha. The forecast
started at 1-2 inches. Now it is up to 5-8, tapering off at noon. Our
flight is scheduled to leave at 3:15 so we may be okay if the morning
flights don't back up and if the flight comes in from Dallas so it can
return to Dallas. This is shaping up to be like the time we went to
Sedona and the morning flights canceled. The other bad part is we have
a tight connection in Miami.

... shared in his parents' joy as they move into a gorgeous home in the mountains of Colorado, hugged my cherished nanny at our yearly lunch at Gannett Grill, chatted with college buddies, laughed, cried and yes, fought with my beautiful inside and out sisters, watched my dad marry a woman who makes him giggle and vice-versa and reveled in the comfort of the familiarity of family who know you but love you for every silly quirk and ...