Extended Stay America Columbia - Columbia 100 Parkway

... Metro link (yellow line). Very nice Metro worker very informative showed us how to buy week long passes. Checked into hotel. Breakfast: at home Lunch: Quizino's at Dane County Airport Dinner: Rosa's (Chinatown accross from Verizon Center)

... goodbye but I was happy that she was able to come out and spend a few days with my family and I...That evening I got all of my stuff packed up for my trip to Seattle (oh yeah!) and my parents and I sat around and watched TV; one of the few days of the year that I would actually spend the evening doing that. Like I said before, the time went to quickly and I wish I would have had more time to spend with my folks but I guess there's always next year. See you in Seattle!!!!

This is probably the entry which we most regret having lost the photographs off. It was the typical Washington pictures, but we were in them! Anyway, we started off early to try to make Washington in one day. However it was impossible to get there fast along the Blue Ridge Parkway as there was continous road works all over the place so we decided to ...

... capable of lifting half a sofa, or a twin mattress, or a table, the only issue I have is that I am too darn short. I am not saying I could beat out one of the guys in a weight lifting contest but I am no weakling the main issue is lifting things up to the truck because it it about at my chest level so the tall guys just reach out and set things in and I have to be able to lift things over my head. I am no personally going to start training to strap a whole sleeper sofa on my ...

Hello! I am asked a lot of questions about my move, and I thought I'd try to address some of the most frequent ones in this entry. Basically, it all comes down to why I'm moving, why Boulder, and details about the move and my upcoming living and working situation. WHY? I've wanted to live somewhere else for a loooong time, but my priority was to finish school. Well, I finished school in May and finally have the opportunity to try something different in my ...

... of about 13 million people. The population breakdown is about 25% indigenous, 65% mixed indigenous and European descent, 4% Afro-Ecuadorian and 6% pure European. About 95% of the country is Catholic from the Spanish colonial days although the indigenous population still has strong influences from their pre-Spanish religions. Ecuador is split in two by the Andes ...

... Blue Ridge Mountains beckoned. I was sweating like a pig and thought I would seriously self-combust when I got into the car ready for the long drive. Off I drove and with the air-con on full couldn't understand why I was still hot...and getting hotter by the minute. Stopped on the lay-by and realised the air con was on warm blower and to make it even worse I'd accidentally switched on my driver seat heater (damn buttons!). Its common knowledge but petrol really is ...

... the video camera and Larry his still digital - and we walked past the anchialine (need to look up the explanation for that -- got it! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchialine _pool and http://www.fukubonsai.com/M-L2b.html) pools that the Marriott has set up as preservation areas (since it apparently destroyed so many in building the resort area). "Beach access" is what I would consider a misnomer - there is no beach in terms of sand. "Shore access ...

... on the walls with faux finished door and ceiling to resemble turquoise oxidized copper. We also made a trip to the Georgia O'Keefe museum in Santa Fe and learned about her life. I've always loved her large flower paintings but didn't realize the range of her work. On our drive around the northern part of the state, we drove by the landscape near her home which inspired many of her paintings. Dad bought some notecards with 4 ...

... we heard was that the NGO's would take the money given to them, and use it for themselves and their families. And in terms of foreign aid, how do you provide aid for things as basic as food and shelter without building depedency? Many times when we went to the camps, people assumed we were there to give something away like the other mizungus. And after 90% of our interviews, most people would ask us to give them personal ...