Holiday Inn Guelph, On

My dear friends: It's getting colder in Canada and my thoughts are wandering to warmer climes. On January 12/2010, I fly to Managua, Nicaragua and then work my way north ending up in Cancun, Mexico. From there, I fly to join many members of the Gaudun family in Daytona Beach. If you would rather not get notifications of my travel blogs just send a brief "no thank you" to this travelpod . No problem. Hasta la vista baby. Steve

Everyone is getting very excited.<br>We've upgraded our camera and hope to be posting some nice pictures, and maybe even some video on this site.<br>As we finish a location, we will let you know where we stayed, provide some pictures and also fill you in on the activities we did in the area.<br>

... statues, art exhibits, soccer fields, etc.<br><br>· Downtown &#8211; Drove through the financial district and marveled at the tall skyscrapers &#8211; TD Tower, CN Tower, City Hall, Roger Center to name a few. <br><br>· Little Italy &#8211; A tightly packed community of homes and businesses. Sadly, we never met anyone named Guido, Pauly, Affonso, Luigi nor Vito and didn't seen any old men playing dominos on ...

... of not traveling right now. Actually, it does a very decent job of curtailing the pining need to go. And as always, that need never rests. I just hold it tight until I can unleash it again soon.<br><br>Back to work part-time, freelancing part-time so it all equals out and I get alot of Tenny Time in so that makes me happy. Generally, I am happy. I am tired, yet restless, and always have that urge inside to do something spontaneous and "crazy" (in ...

... at first or what we wanted, then one of the OVs got up and demonstrated and then he did it too, it was great. <br><br>Tuesday I did a tour of Guelph (the town) with some other internationals then had a big night over at the suite next door with most of the others on our floor. Wednesday had the official president&#8217;s welcome to new students and other free lunch- lots of free food during o-week. Oh and I got a free plant too, just had to write down my email ...

... time. <br><br>I slept a little bit on the train after I watched some TV. It was about 5 hours to Toronto. Once I got to the hostel it was tempting to just hop in bed but I had said I would meet up with Lee so I got ready to go out. Unfortunately I got a little lost on the way over to the other hostel and I didn&#8217;t make until after the time we agreed to meet so she must have thought I wasn&#8217;t coming and left without me. I decided to just head over to ...

... plugs (not used) Comb/hairbrush Small mirror Headband, hair clips,elastics Alarm Clock Safety Pins, 2 clothespins, rubber bands Moleskin *Pretrip - Ducolux Other Inflatable back pillow (sent home) Backstage small clip-on Flashlight and a Headlamp Small candle Athletic tape around pencil Addresses and phone numbers Mini calendar and small pen 4 Moleskin books - one a month Extra Pens/pencils Door stopper (good for security but ...

... Eye glasses/ prescriptions comb/hairbrush mirror Other Inflatable back pillow (better for sleeping) Portable Hard Drive Digital Camera and charger Techie Flashlight on a key chain/Headlamp Watch Business cards Moleskin books Pen/pencil Ziplock bags Little gifts Carabiner Family Photos Antibacterial shoe liners 2 small notebooks for Spanish classes Game Pouch - cards, dice, pen, pencil, paper Binoculars Birds of Mexico Book Mouthguard Harmonica and Book

Our great friends Mick and Kirsty and their daughter Lindsay just moved out to Fergus, a small town about a half hour away, which Mick comically refers to as the F-Dot. For those of you non-Ontarians out there, T-Dot is a common name used to refer to the city of Toronto and so he stole this revered name to name his own little town, now at population 503,000 since they moved there. This led me to a new nickname for our town which I usually refer to as G ...

... going at my workstation alone. I take these things quite seriously and have limited myself to only having one, if any, so it had better be a good one. After a good half hour, I changed my mind for the last time and plopped down the 69 cents. I self consciously mumbled some comment of maybe needing to plan something sometime and he smiled offering an encouraging "Better late than never." I turned at Bloor Street (full of hip stores and trendy restaurants...there is ...