fly to new york
Up again at the crack of dawn, Matt and I broke down camp collected the family and headed out to Albuquerque. Another long day of travel where we went in and out of rain storms and saw lots of terrain.
We were able to veer of the main roads and hit Route 66 for Winslow, [...]
Our first day where we were actually going to enjoy the Grand Canyon. Needless to say, our backs were broken and Matt and I were up at the crack of dawn to set up our tent. Our campsite was the only one actually inside the Grand Canyon Park and was situated 50 yards [...]
After 4 hours sleep we headed to the Grand Canyon. It was a long drive, we didn’t reach Mom’s rental cabin until 8:00, checked her in, then tried to set up camp. Unfortunately, the sun had set and there wasn’t anywhere to buy firewood. We decided to crash Mom and Kelly’s [...]
After 6 hours of moving all of our worldly belongings from our San Diego condo to a moving trailer (with help from Starving Students) and then again to the shipping trailer, we hit the open road. Wind in our hair and a desire to hit Vegas as fast as the tires would carry us.
We [...]
We were a bit apprehensive about our transport from Ko Phangan back to Bangkok because the end point of our boat-bus combo was Khaosan Road, and after all the stories we had heard about people being robbed heading south from Khaosan, we were concerned that it would be the same heading north to there. We [...]
Day - 39 Friday 29th May 2009
A brief tour of Klamath Falls for some photos for the record, and then north towards Crater Lake, which everyone said was worth seeing.
It’s very warm here, in the 90’s even in the shade, and the sun is extremely hot so we were a bit surprised when they warned [...]
I just got the Yellow Fever vaccine today, the last of the shots I need for my trip! That’s pretty much all I have done to get ready so far…I don’t know where/how/when to start packing!!Right now I am more SCARED than anything! I am looking forward to experiencing a new culture, but [...]
(Stop! The blog order got screwed up- read “No Sleep ‘Till Dublin” before you read this blog!)
“A Hundred Thousand Welcomes to Ireland”
I write this latest blog from my dorm room at the Dublin City University! We arrived in Dublin around 9am and got to the apartments shortly thereafter. I unpacked my things [...]
Fire
The morning we were due to leave for Ko Phagnan and the “world famous” Full Moon Party, we were up early so I could work out whether my feet were up to me moving. It seemed the antibiotics had worked some magic and I was actually able to walk again and the swelling was noticeably [...]