http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/SuzannesJourney/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from SuzannesJourney en-us Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:50:30 BST Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:50:30 BST We landed in New Hampshire Thursday morning followed by a car ride that took less than an hour to get to our destination in Massachusetts. It wasn't until I sent my little sister a text message that we landed safely and got a response ofWhat Where Whythat I realized that I forgot to tell my family I was leaving other then one sister on the other side of the family and a cousin in Ohio.Alex http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Massachusetts/Westford/blog-293337.html Saturday February 2 2008We're in route to Curacao after an excellent start with American Airlines. I was checked in separately from Alex due to my confirmation not pulling up in their system. Found out the hard way that they charge a flat 50 for anything over 50 pounds. Completely forgetting I packed an 8 pound laptop in my bag I came in five pounds to heavy and couldn't transfer weight to http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Netherlands-Antilles/Cura-ao/blog-245216.html Friday January 25 2008If you travel to Mexico and don't know Spanish...the road signs with the E crossed out means No Parking. We picked that up along the way...it could prove useful.Today was one of the most incredible days of my life. Today. I'm sharing it with you but unfortunately the only photographs of the best parts are the ones stored to memory. I thought I should warn you in adva http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Michigan/Jackson/blog-240546.html Monday January 21 2008The subject just means quoteHow to log inend quote. Has anyone used a Mexican keyboard before They have to have quotation marks somewhere...Alex is in bed and does not want to get up. I think he has a cold. Again. Or maybe still is more appropriate. His doc put him on a Zpack before we left for just in case. He has been cold like for about two months. Now he i http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/Puerto-Morelos/blog-238249.html We are here...there is no apostrophe or quotation marks on this keyboard...and the sign is on the key for Q. The key is down by the shift....it is throughly confusing me.The flight in was great...I sat next to a middle aged woman named Susan who lives in Farmington Hills and did not mind getting up for me to walk I opted not to do a shot in the belly even though I am off the blood thinner... http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/blog-238099.html We should have left for the airport ten minutes ago. Alex is walking around in his underwear eating cold pizza and finally packing his portion of the bag we're sharing. I just zipped through packing my half in the last 45 minutes... procrastinate What's that The not sleeping diet coke pizza Midol and waiting for Alex is making me nauseous. My mom emailed meIs all this snow and COLD bei http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Michigan/Jackson/blog-237575.html Happy Moo Year http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Michigan/Jackson/blog-231276.html For those of us that aren't up on our geography...here's a visual of the down under travels for a reference. Thanks again for sharing my travels and for all of the supportive comments and emails you've sent me.Next stop http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Michigan/Jackson/blog-230684.html When we arrived at the Auckland airport to fly to Fiji we were surprised to see our flight had been delayed from 1 or 2 until midnight. We were flying Air Pacific and they were very accommodating. They put all of us delayed passengers into a hotel with free lunch and dinner to kill time until our flight. After we stuffed our bellies with lunch we got a phone call in our room offering to pick u http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Fiji/Mamanuca-Islands/blog-230585.html Saturday December 15th 2007 1259 a.m.We spent all day today driving. Well Alex drove and I took pictures. I haven't been able to sleep the last two nights...both nights I slept for about three hours and then it was a lost cause trying. The first night I spent hours and hours thinking my mind spinning about my life and my future...then I got up and painted my nails.Here I am night numbe http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Fox-Glacier/blog-230545.html In Rotoura we saw a swing that the people were strapped into a metal cage and then the cage is raised really high you pull a cord and literally swing out from the mountain. On that tv show 1000 Places to See Before You Die they did a swing where three people were strapped in on their bellies with a helmet on and the same thing you swing. When I found out what we were doing and saw video.... http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Queenstown/blog-227138.html It's hard to take in all the beauty we've been exposed to...I'm not sure what to do with it all...I wish some how it could soak into my skin or maybe if I yell really loud so that at least my voice reaches the mountains and the lakes so something can indulge in all of it at once.Friday December 7 2007 1058 p.m.We have arrived in Kaikora and it is by my definition a piece of heaven. On the http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Queenstown/blog-226956.html This doesn't do the magpie justice as far as how cool their bird song is but it gives you a pretty good idea. The clip is at the bottom of the website on the right hand side under Calls. The ones I saw did less cawing and more of the funky sound you hear more clearly at the end of the clip.httpwww.birdsinbackyards.netfinderdisplay.cfmid24 http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Wellington/blog-225596.html There will probably be some duplicate photos due to my many attempts to upload reupload upload again...and forgetting what has actually worked and what hasn't...hopefully this is mostly new to you.We are about as far south as it gets on the north island of New Zealand...tomorrow at 750 a.m. we head on a ferry ride that I heard is pretty rough the first hour for a three hour ride to the south http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Wellington/blog-225517.html Sunday December 2nd 2007 1111 p.m.Alex and I went for a drive not really paying attention to our map to a hiking destination that takes four hours to complete along the ocean. We passed our destination unintentionally and kept going to a rinkadink little city with only a fish and chips place around to get food from. The lady working there is a 60 year old Chinese woman. She was hilario http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Rotorua/blog-225173.html Thursday November 29th 2007 357 p.m. Wow. Seriously. What we got ourselves into is called Canyoning. The one we wanted to do wasn't running today so we went with another company called Awol Adventures. This one didn't have the natural water slide but wow. I just looked at the brochure again to compare the photos on there with what we did today and though it is the same places the same act http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Whangarei/blog-224336.html Well...it's a start I went to an internet place next door...that was an experiance in itself.It was filled with Asian kids smoking and playing internet video games shouting swear words in english and something else I didn't understand. The program I need to upload multiple photos doesn't seem to work on these computers. I'm on a free WHAT Free hotel computer right now. I guess someone http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Auckland/blog-223427.html Monday November 26 2007 1053 a.m.I'm quite frustrated right now. I either left my USB memory card reader for my camera at the hotel in Melbourne or it fell out in the woods either way nobody turned it in and I'm not doing another 3 and a half hour hike to find it before tomorrow morning.This sucks for a few reasons1. I'm down a gig of memory.2. I'm down the memory card reader.I was mo http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Auckland/blog-223402.html I'm trying to get photos on here I have a TON but it seems like anywhere I go it gets 99 done and then .........nothing.So be prepared for a back log of photo fun.Today has been really good. Alex and I went to the sky tower and did this freaky over looking the city thing. You go up 88 floors and then into a glass box that moves out over the city you can see above below and all around you. http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/blog-222291.html Saturday November 24 2007 1246 a.m.I meant to write before midnight to wish you all a very happy Thanksgiving since we're a day ahead of you. I saw the New York Thanksgiving parade on the news this morning. We were up and out the door at 750 this morning and just got home a half hour ago. It's been a looooong day.We started off with a city tour of Melbourne. Alex and I got in last night http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/blog-222234.html