Super 8 Poughkeepsie

... to the Christmas experience and especially the markets. We are very excited to spend Christmas Eve in Rothenberg. I am bringing small gifts for everyone but am stuck on what to get 3 boys ages 17, 15 and 11. Any ideas from anyone?

... again, and soaked the rear carpet again. It has begun to stink big time.

We hung the rug over the shower curtain rod, and headed to North Haven, 40 miles away, because janet had called us early in the morning, and said Glenn Beck would be at a book signing for his new book at Barnes & Noble from 8 to 9. We got there at 7:30. Glenn got there at 9:30. I was fit to be tied, but he is my hero. The line moved at a slow walking pace ...

Can anyone suggest an all inclusive resort off the east coast of the US for myself and family (wife and 2 sons 11 and 13), would like if possible to get there by a short cruise from NY or NJ. Would like to spend 1-2 days on ship and 4-5 days at resort, and maybe fly back to US. Can go anytime from March thru July2010. The family has never been to an island resort or on a cruise, thanx for any info

... the bushes with raspberries. There were apples too, but the day belonged to the former.

Photo's from The Road Less Traveled http://www.artistrising.com/galleries/J oseph_Gillette

... it doesn’t have electric but at least it has showers so that’s something. Sadly today’s huge run-around had taken up most of the day and as it was now almost 4pm it was too late to set off for there today, so we headed back to Wal-Mart for another look. We managed to find a spot that was ok. It wasn’t brilliant in that it was under great big floodlights but at least it was tucked away around the corner form the main entrance, and as we didn’t ...

... that included electric. It’s a little further north than we ideally want to go, but it’s always an option.

Because we didn’t want to get embroiled in the sprawling Metropolis of New York which basically begins right over the State line from Connecticut, we took Highway 1 as far as New Haven, where we drove past parts of Yale University and then began to head inland on the 34 towards Danbury. Although there was a Wal-Mart ...

... shirts, hats and beer guts I hear one of the most eloquently spoken exchanges in my life. *Imagine a thick, thick Brooklyn accent - Fan #1: "Yo dude what da f*#k, it's hot as a mutha f*#ker our heya" Fan #2: "F*#kin' ay". I told you... linguistic brilliance. The game itself was a side show to the overly enthused fans. My favorite part was when I had to stand for a the US national anthem and a minutes silence out of respect for troops serving in Iraq. It's such a big thing ...

... and the mighty Hudson river. It was all pretty spectacular. Even smaller US rivers like the Hudson certainly put our tiddly little streams at home into perspective. After such an interesting train journey Poughkeepsie was a bit dissapointing. The redeeming feature being that it looks to be one of the many declining American industrial centres in the North East so we could almost believe that we were in Baltimore (one of our favourite ...

... stopped in Tarrytown, an adorable village (perhaps too adorable? Heavily Washington Irving, with Halloween a major holiday) with old and new colonial houses, some with wonderful vistas of the Hudson River. We had tickets for a 3-hour (what was I thinking?) tour of the Rockefeller estate, Kykuit, starting at1:45. And it went on for 3 solid, feet-exhausting hours. Enormous ...

... Ministry". So, while other religious communities would have been fine for a retreat to start my sabbatical this one is familiar to me and I could get past the "stranger" feeling faster. The trip on the train to get here was simple and easy. The taxi ride from the station to the monastery was a different story. What should have a simple 25 minute ride ended up being almost an hour. The one taxi that was at the station beckoned me over and offered a fair price to get to the ...