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... view of the impacts of tourism on the island of Aruba?(The following are potential topics you could touch on in your explanation).
a. Citizen’s well-being
b. Aruba’s economy
c. Aruba’s natural environment
d. Aruba’s crime rate
e. What is your personal view of “tourists?”

Post anything you think will be helpful. 
Thank you for your time!

... Italian restaurant. We just have to go by our gut instincts." On we drove until we hit Reading, MA. I yelled, "That's it!" There on the corner was a window to a small bistro and the letters spelled Ristorante Pavorotti. A quick swerve to the right, park and enter. The owner greeted us in Italian. We ordered a fabulous, reasonably priced bottle of wine and had an amazing meal, experience ...

Jane and I walked 8 miles today! Yesterday we walked 6. We are getting ready for our trip to Sweden in February. I know, who goes to Sweden in February. We both agree that a much better time will be had if we set goals of walking/running during our trip ...

... are called "Kills" – i.e. Lewis Kill, Hudson Kill, etc.

· The Piscataqua Bridge is a 6 lane monstrosity that forms the border between New Hampshire and Maine.

PORTLAND, Maine:

We hadn’t seen Foster since June/08 and he sure grew over the past year – he’s over 6’ tall! Tom got transferred back to ...

... are called "Kills" – i.e. Lewis Kill, Hudson Kill, etc.

· The Piscataqua Bridge is a 6 lane monstrosity that forms the border between New Hampshire and Maine.

PORTLAND, Maine:

We hadn’t seen Foster since June/08 and he sure grew over the past year – he’s over 6’ tall! Tom got transferred back to ...

... our travels with you through this blog and hope it goes successfully. One of our audiences will be Sophie and Isabelle's classes...."hello fellow classmates/teachers". We hope to bring to this blog our personal experiences and reactions as well as some history and educational value. The girls would also like to challenge the classes with periodic questions about our destination to see if the classes can come up with the answers.

... changes, of which I am sure there will be.

We shall be in Jacksonville at least five days, so I can at last get my nails done. They have lasted very well, I have only broken one so far.

We had some rotten weather yesterday which set the ship rolling, today though is nice and sunny, but we ...

... pictures from the top. The biodesiel train ride was really neat too, at one point it is actually pointed up at a 37 degree angle. When you stand up on the train you have to lean so far forward so you don’t fall over. Amazing views and a nice relaxing way to get to the top of the mountain!

Continue to check back as we will update this travelblog as we go places. We have a weekend of basketball planned for November in Providence and a trip to Germany over Christmas vacation!

When we checked in yesterday the ladies in reception had insisted that we should try the Merry Moose, the little log cabin in the grounds of the site that served pancakes and waffles for breakfast. So we wandered down there and put in our order for blueberry pancakes. A word of warning if you visit this KOA! The pancakes are huge! About 8 inches in diameter and about half an inch thick! And so a portion of two ...

... government... We landed in Atlanta, breezed through customs and spent the next five hours waiting to board a plane to Portland that had been delayed twice already. We finally touched down in Maine at midnight on the dot and were scooped up by my parents and whisked home to dogs and cats and general chaos. So good to be back! So for our highlights reel, we made a top ten list of favorite ...