This past weekend, I flew to Portland to spend time with my two team mates from Tanzania and to watch one of them get married. It was my first real wedding (I went to my cousin's at the age of 12 but don't remember much) and it was great to see such strong Christians pronounce their unity to the world and make a covenant with God. Since coming back from Tanzania, I have been praying over missions and wondering where God will take me. He continually guides my heart back to here, now, this time and reminds me that today is [View Full Entry]

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Its 8:00 PM Pacific Time. Waiting at Gate 77 for the next leg on the journey. Its been a long day and it is still early in the trip. Not complaining just tired lol. Spoke to Toni when I got here, she is well but would rather be with me on this trip. Well this is just a short note - next entry will be from Sydney. John [View Full Entry]

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Our bright idea to save money was to stay the night in Honolulu airport and catch our early flight to LAX. However, when we arrived at the airport just after midnight, not only was it not a 24 hour airport, but most of it was open air. Unfazed by the situation, Dale and Ollie nodded straight off (laying on concrete); I think Mark had a bit more trouble. After a healthy breakfast courtesy of Burger King, we boarded our early morning plane to LAX. I was assured by Mark and Ollie that Naveen Andrews ('Saheed' from Lost) was also on our [View Full Entry]

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Our last day - boo hoo! The kids are ready for home and seeing their friends, but Steve and I would like another couple of years before we have to go back to the drudgery of work. Even a few more days to wind down would be nice - I should have booked a couple of days at the beach on the way home!!! Next time... So we pack up the suitcases, squeezing everything we could in every little space, but darn it we still have a plastic bag full of shoes and stuff to put somewhere. Too bad that we've [View Full Entry]

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Hi all, We are coming to the final day of our trip - boooo!! Las Vegas was cool, we are probably about even on the money, up a bit on Roulette and Dave finally sussed out the black jack which I could not get to grips with! All winnings were put to good use on new shoes!! We also managed to take in a show - Mamma Mia - fantastic (well I thought so, Dave is not really an ABBA fan!) Anyway just a quick note, we are now in LA where we fly from tomorrow so we are just having [View Full Entry]

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So....Our flight got delayed out of LA to the Cook Islands because the Captain got sick. Hmm...So now we fly out at 5am tomorrow morning (Monday) and have to stop in Hawaii for a few hours to pick up a NEW captain. They put us up in the Sheraton Hotel and gave us $100 to order room service, so we ordered EVERYTHING on the entire menu. Literally..wings, burgers, milkshakes, salad. This screws us up though because we had a connecting flight in Rarotonga that we'll miss now. They are supposed to put us on a new flight in Rarotonga though... We'll [View Full Entry]

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Okay, so I'm going to try this travel blog one more time. I don't know how long it will last, but I'll try to keep you posted on the many different destinations that I get to. Here's a quick run down of my itinerary for the next 7 months. Today I'm flying to Italy. Actually, in about an hour and a half and technically I'm flying to Germany first, with a two hour tour of all the things Frankfurt's airport has to offer, and then I head to Italy. Venice to be exact. That's a grand total of 12 hours of [View Full Entry]

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YEAAAAA!!!!! so the two of us have tag-teamed a nice asian business man...why did we tag team him you ask?? well cuz the dude had a computer!!! thats why!!! in celebration of our accomplishment jen and i have decided to post the first 5 pictures of asia tour 2008!!! (please bare in mind that these pictures were taken under extreme circumstances...the weather was HORRID when we left this morning... makeup is now illegal on airplanes...we were mauled by a wild pack of moose and antelope on the way into YVR ANNND we were both strip-searched and interrigated for 2 hours. now [View Full Entry]

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I am still not quite yet off to Australia, but had a great day in L.A. with Jill. So good to catch up with her and reminisce about all the fun times we had in El Paso. We had a fabulous day riding up the coast to Venice Beach for a good breakfast and a quick jaunt on the beach. We then headed further up the coast to my fav Malibu restaurant - Gladstones, baby! - for some yummie oysters and coconut shrimp. Great relaxing day and a good way to kick off my vacation. Not looking forward to my 14 [View Full Entry]

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It's the day of departure. It came so quickly! I almost ran into a problem at JFK airport. My scheduled flight was already delayed and it was not going to make it to LAX in time for the connecting flight to Taipei. They were able to put me at the top of the standby list for an earlier flight. Thankfully, my bag and I made it to LAX. Now, I'm waiting for the flight to Taipei. Total flight time will be just about 24 hours. When I arrive in Taipei, I will go to the National Taiwan University Hopital to watch [View Full Entry]

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