Shilo Inn Portland Airport

The hotel here is great! Nicest one I've seen in a while! It even has a little suite area - and we've got three TV's. Too bad we don't watch TV! I'm not feeling very deep but I wanted to make sure that I keep this up. I'm very excited about tomorrow - Don is actually feeling nervous enough to feel sick. We are so privileged to be able to make this pilgrimage - how many others have yearned for this and never done it? Well, going to go so I can make my Israel notebook - andput all the pages in ...

Chris and I are staying at the Shilo Inn by the Portland Airport for tonight. Tomorrow, we fly out at 1pm to Frankfurt, then transfer to Paris!! Here's our itinerary: Paris, France - 6 days Madrid, Spain - 6 days Gimmelwald, Switzerland - 3 days Interlaken, Switzerland - 2 days Naples, Italy - 4 days Ischia, Italy - 4 days Rome, Italy - 4 days With all of the inbetween train time and such, it will be a whole month! We're soooooo excited :) I'll try to update from Frankfurt - we have a four ho...

Wow. Here we are sitting at gate D14. This is a really mixed flight. So much different from little old Pendleton. I, a 23 year old white male, am a minority. Our flight has been delayed by about 2 hours. So instead of leaving at 1:05pm we are now leaving at 3:00pm...yeah kinda sucks. This means that when we get to Frankfurt, we have to hurry to our gate. Emily and I have been sitting in these same seats for about an hour and a half now, only getting up to get water, soy chips, and fritos, and...