Sleep Inn Riverdale

What to write? How about some stats:

21,000 miles covering:
6 months
3 Countries
15 National Parks
27 big cities world-wide
28 States in the US
21 onsens (Japanese hot spring)
1 parade I was part of (Japan)
3 Broadway shows
5 Off Broadway shows (2 in Japan, 1 in Canada)
3 enormous festivals
1 Opera (Japan)
6 ...

... up front on the LAX - SYD portion. With almost 14 hours of flying just from the West coast, you would feel the same way too!

If everything goes OK, we should be landing in SYD at 840AM on the morning of Friday, Nov. 20th.

We are all excited about our first trip DOWN UNDER! Vegemite for everyone!

... favorite supermarket, and declared that no one else could have the van until I had gone to Publix. I knew my purchases long before I passed through those clean gilded automatic doors. I made a beeline for the bakery and found a package of the delicious sugar cookies that I love. I only get them about once a year, when my mom is wonderful enough to bring some with her when she visits me, and so I knew I must procure some immediately. I then headed for the deli, where I ...

... is set on and around Stone Mountain. Stone Mountain is a giant mountain made of stone (surprise!) that you can walk up and on or take the skyrail. We compromised and took the skyrail up and walked down. From up top there are amazing views of Atlanta and the Georgian countryside.

The highlight of the day for us, and the main reason we came, was the Sky Hike adventure course. This ...

... my ego and have certainly opened my awareness to a much wider arena of human thought and activity. India became both much more and much less than what I thought it was and that's ok because I say the same about my own country. The same sense of national denial is obvious in both places. There is 'no ego' in India just like there is 'no poverty' in America. Truth alone triumphs, indeed!

Checked out of the hotel at noon. Headed to the Airport, but the flight wasn't until 2230! Ran into Dan Elliot in the airport. He was headed back to Iraq from his R&R leave. Met Fran from "Between", GA. Her daughter teaches English in Egypt and she was going to visit her. She hasn't flown for 15 years!
This is a full flight. Okay- so the flight was delayed for a ...

... and I spend the next hour going over the photos they want to use and me trying to convince him he wants the audio of Renee Gay reading her poem, "Katrina is so mean." Ah, but figuring out how to send him the audio - that took another half an hour (use iTunes, btw), but he loved it (I knew he would). btw, the latest on the CBS Saturday Morning Show is: Chris should be on sometime between 8 and 8:30 am EST. It will be live. He ...

Sunday May 22, 2005

Budapest Airport
Lv. Budapest 12:50 AF # 8653
Ar. Paris 3:10
Atlanta, Georgia, United States dogtravelers2

Sunday May 22, 2005

Budapest Airport
Lv. Budapest 12:50 AF # 8653
Ar. Paris 3:10
Atlanta, Georgia, United States dogtravelers2

... Saturday - May 14, 2005

Ar. Paris 7:45 am
Lv. Paris 9:40 AirFrance #8336
Ar. Vienna 11:40 Vienna ...