Quality Inn & Suites Statesboro

... the huge 747-400 took was certainly interest-ing. It left Atlanta flying west across Denver over the Rockies toward the Pacific between Portland and Seattle (above 45 degrees N latitude). Following the same flight pattern, we flew just below the Aleutian Islands (Bering Sea) crossing the International Date Line without an awareness on our part. About three hours into the flight the attendants had ...

After a very very long drive, we finally made it to our first Hotel in Twin City Georgia just right outside of Valdosta at 4:00 AM Eastern Time. Our GPS system told us that we would arrive at 4:03 and we pulled in the parking lot at exactly 4:03. The kids did really good in the car, we were very thankful for that. We stopped and ate Cracker Barrell in Kentucky. We ate with the flies in the restaurant and they were driving everybody ...

... to see Seth after a week of sleeping alone and missing him. <br> Millen is a very, very small town situated in the eastern part of Georgia. Over the last year the small town has experienced tremendous amounts of economic tragedy. Several factories and buisnesses that were helped to keep Millen going have been closed. You can see the seriousness of the situation in so many of the resident's faces. Because of these struggles crime ...

... today is the demise of the merchant bank Lehman Brothers, stock brokers Merrill Lynch being bought out by Bank Of America, and the world's largest insurance company, AIG have announced that they are in trouble. All good stuff! On a slightly selfish note though, the dollar moved quite significantly in our favour today. <br><br>Miles travelled: 166 <br><br>Total miles travelled: 11195 <br><br>Days on road: 100 <br><br>States visited: 19 <br><br>National Parks visited: 11

... live music. (Another memo to Jim and Dave: Badger, lawn in front of City Hall, noon until 1pm, Thursday and Friday, June to September, weather permitting). After a brief wander around the park, we headed Downtown for a bit of lunch at Jim's Diner (not sure it was Jim but it was some bloke's diner). Not Meal of the Day by a long chalk. The next hour or so was spent with a bunch of journalists. CNN journalists to be exact in the CNN Centre (sorry ...

... a small girl skipped by her in the hallway! she never saw the girl before that night or after it!! supposedly it's the third floor that is haunted... and lucky us, that's where we stayed. i slept with Jaime.. she was a good roomie for the nite :o) woke up at 6:20AM, stretched, and met Chi Chi in the lobby of the hotel. we stretched more, then our professor Early came down. we waited for Rick to come down to run with us ...

woke up at 5:00AM and i was so excited to leave that i got ready too fast.. i ended up sitting around waiting for my ride for 20 minutes. oops, hehe. the carpool i was in had to wait for a guy to wake up (10 mins).. and then the whole group (17 people) had to wait for our TA to wake up & drive over to the bus station for 30 minutes... lol. we left west lafayette an hour later than hoped.

... about the South is the food, yep I ate it all fried green tomatoes which were pretty bad, fried catfish which was bland and Grittes. Grittes was nice, it was like porridge and semolina together. In my dish they threw in some shrimp and bacon, fried bacon of course.So that is all folks, except that I finally got shut of Olive for scrap, apparently no-one down south wants to buy a car without air conditioning and with sweety seats :-)

... there is a kinder and gentler life in the smaller towns in America. Small towns seem somewhat insulated from the negative aspects of life in big cities. The Daily Journal of Round America: Each day, we collect our thoughts on a web page just like this. We drop in some of the photos from the day. Our goal with the Daily Journal is to write about the ...

... photos along the way. We saw some expressions of patriotism, but nowhere near what we all saw after 9/11. Dacula and Madison showed the greatest patriotism. (Round America Photos from Dacula Georgia) We briefly visited the towns of Auburn, Barrow City, Winder, and Statesboro. Copyright 2003-2008, Round America and William M. Windsor