Holiday Inn Gaithersburg, Md

... the fact that my favorite explorer as a kid was Magellan who first circumnavigated the globe (but sadly met an untimely end in the South Pacific islands before finishing his grand adventure - please, no jokes here from my friends and family less enamored of travelJ ), is to begin year of reflection, renewal, and creativity following my completion (at last!) of the Ph.D. program in Leadership Studies at the University of San Diego. I am calling it my "victory lap" and I can hardly think of ...

... Level 1 is my favorite gallery, the gallery of Pulitzer Prize Photographs. At the entrance is posted the winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize, a photograph of the final moments of journalist Kenji Nagai as he was fatally shot during the political protests in Burma. I have noticed that a lot of the Pulitzer Prize winners captured the last moments of someone's life for example the 1961 winner was the picture of the assassination of Asanuma, Japanese socialist ...

... day.. Only time with tell, I suppose. After the memorial, I walked through the Korean War Memorial and over to the Roosevelt Memorial. The sun was setting and I got a few nice photos, and after checking out the memorial, inside and out, I decided to begin my journey back to the hostel. I felt quite safe here, but at the end of the day, this is the US, so you can never be too careful.. Once I got back to the hostel, I had a rest for an hour or so, checked my emails and ...

... Seattle. I have also learned how to be a natural on the metro. When they say "underground subway," they really mean underground. Like super long escalators, and sometimes up to three sets of them...down, down, down. I figured out pretty quickly that there is an unwritten escalator code: if you want to stand still, stand on the right, so that people who want to walk up (or down) the escalator can do so on the left. I just love how the metro makes it so easy to get around the city ...

... br><br> I finished my meal, the chicken was rubber like but I ate it knowing I had many hours before getting "real" food again. The dipping sauce made it all go down easier. The fries were crisp and tasty. I love potatoes!! Loved that part of the meal.<br><br> I headed toward gate B32 and went to the check in counter. All was good with my ticket so I found a place to sit and wait for the boarding process. Soon they started loading the ...

... I can only wonder what the other choice was. The flight was filled to capacity and wouldn't you know I would have the pleasure of having a terrible three year old beside me. He was the worst behaved child I have seen on a flight. He had tantrums, was yelling and screaming and slapping his dad most of the time he was awake. His parents (Chinese) seemingly took this all in stride as I don't think they believed in ...

... get involved! That is amazing. Some of you may be wondering as I did what exactly happens to those new believers once they accept Christ into their hearts. After all, we were only in contact with them for about 6 hours, and then we headed off to another sight. That is a very good question, and one that should be clarified whether anyone was wondering or not. Before we even arrived in Peru, Big ...

I've decided we are not organized travelers. We always make lists and faithfully follow them -- only to find we forgot to put something on the list OR we can't find what we listed that we wanted to remember to take. Or I go through huge proceedings to prepare for something and then find out I didn't need to do it in the first place. E.g., I ...

... treated us well, gave us a large table and brought out the kids meal before the others. The food was excellent, you can probably not go wrong with any seafood choice on the menu, and even our daughter's entrée from the kids menu was fantastic. And no, we didn't try the pizza. We got home late, but happy after a great weekend. We certainly have to go back to Boston to see the historic sites, and certainly too Mystic for a weekend of R&amp;R.

Start of an exciting new year. I arrived on the 30th of Aug. to this city I had visited for a few days 8 years ago and was positively surprised. It wasn´t the sterile, only-office-dead-at-night city I´ve seen back then, but a very green, urban-european and lively city. At least the area I live in is like that. I live in a great "luxury appartment" building between 3 great neighborhoods: Dupont Circle - where school is located and which is the gay district of the city - Adams Morgan ...