Hilton Grand Rapids Airport

... little town. I reckon postcards wouldn’t do it justice. Trace and I spent many hours walking the lovely tree-lined streets marvelling at perfect little houses and their perfect little lawns, which were a shade of green not of this earth I tell you. Everybody we passed on the street gave us a massive smile and a greeting, and smelled of apple pie......I swear I heard the cogs whirring inside one of them when he turned, smiled like a mass murdering ...

So I head off today on this big adventure! I will be in Amsterdam for 3 days and then I head off to Arusha on Sunday with my group. I am full of excitement and nerves and I can't wait to learn and experience everything this semester will offer. There will be many stories and photos (if I can find somewhere to upload them) to follow. 
Love and peace to everyone I will miss you!

-Molly

Well, this is just a welcome to my newly-formed travel blog. I've been in Holland for most of the summer, and I am going home in a day and a half to spend the next two weeks with my family. Holland has been good for me... I don't think I could have spent another summer working at my high school job in Red Wing. But hey, who says you can't go home?

Tuesday 7/28

Photography day is here or was. Dan the model called to ask permission to bring a model friend along and so did. Started at 10 am and finished at about 2pm having made over 1000 images. Now the processing of those images, down to a very few, begins when I get back in town. Dan and Braxton both said it was fun and I had a good time as well. Time to think about supper and getting this place cleaned up. Tomorrow its back to da lake and …

... lake looks like it comes up and under the cabin, VERY nice. It is very quite here so much so that the only sound are fingers on keyboard, or is it just my hearing. Anyway, very nice and I have made contact with the model for tomorrow and all sounds good. And so that's a wrap for today.

... moves to another day, as that's the day we're doing the sunrise tour of Stonehenge/Bath/Lacock. Saturday is the day trip to Oxford; I hope it doesn't rain that day, either. Just about everything else we're doing involves being indoors at museums, so I don't care if it rains every other day we're there. Well, not much left to do now but finish packing. We will probably be in England next time I post! Hopefully I'll have a picture or two to share.

... remember this trip by! I only wish I could have figured out how to get some of them uploaded onto this blog to share. Maybe our next adventure I'll have it figured out. This was my first try at a blog, so I feel good just getting something down in writing for every day of travel. It's good to travel. It's good to see the way others live. It's good to be home. Hope you enjoyed this journey with us as much as we did! Joan and Joe

... list, I was disappointed by how little I did the items on my list. My buddy, Adam "Johnny" Rohr, commented: "What are we living for?" On the eve of my twenty-seventh birthday, I made a vow: "I, Justin Breen, on this, the 25th of October 2006, vow, out of dueful respect and love for myself, that I will partake in at least one activity from a dynamic list of ASE´s (Acts of Spontaneous Ecstasy) on every day of my 28th year of life ..." A.S.E ...

... shots had so quickly been made. Good from forty feet! My 42-year-old dad came outside soon after, and he got in his first "Competition of the Week" action. He'd led a state champion basketball team while in high school, but a bad shoulder made this large distance tough. Left-handed, he wound up a circle with his arm, and thrust the ball under-handed towards the hoop. He mightaswell have been trying to catch a fish dinner with a frisbee ...

... Luckily, there wasn't a snow fence anywhere near the hill, but there was a large jump, so I'd be sure to keep Tracy away from that. We went down the main hill, which was disappointingly slow and didn't provide the rush we were looking for. So, we ventured into the area's forest trails in search of some real kick-ass sledding. The first hill we came to was a bumpy path surrounded by some trees and a bunch of high school guys. I wasn't sure my sled wouldn ...