This last year has flown by. It seems like I was talking to Lloyd about if we were going to travel or not the other day. Planning this trip over the past 9 months has been amazing. The whole idea of taking this trip started when Lloyd and I shared a room fall quarter because he quite his job as a Resident Adviser in the dorms to pursue the life of a Bartender...I think it worked out well. I was in a journalism class and we were asked to buy three magazines that we would potentially like to write for. One [View Full Entry]

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I am here. I am tired. I am going to sleep. The End. [View Full Entry]

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In my final week in San Francisco i went to jail for a day. Alcatraz that is, the ex-prison located on an island in the the bay near SF. Quite strange that in my 4 years of living in San Francisco i never went to it before, but i was working and the weekends require a reservation upto a month in advance, and i can't schedule my life that well. When i did have holidays i was more keen for backpacking in the mountains or on the coast or snowboarding at Lake Tahoe. So Jace and myself went on Tuesday, got [View Full Entry]

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One moment I was in New York, the next I'm in San Francisco. Its as if 7 weeks have gone by in the blink of an eye. The road trip has been hectic. I've had far less free time than expected for blogging duties and learning Spanish (for South American phase, now less than a week away!). I have seen so much! There is certainly no better way to get around the states than a big gas-guzzling SUV. The flipside is that there have been times when I'd have liked to have spent longer in a place, but we've been forced [View Full Entry]

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Just a little note to all my friends—sentimental essay Dear friends, “Don't you forget about me I'll be alone, dancing you know it baby” Just me rambling and trying to catch you all up to speed. I’ll blog this so you can read it later. Me long winded—never. I’m often accused of being selfish or self absorbed for not being very open so here. I’m trying. It’s just my consciousness is such a better place than the world we live in sometimes. Earth to Kell Dogg:) Yes I have a happy place. That’s why I smile and dance all the t [View Full Entry]

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SHORT 3HR DRIVE TO SAN FRANCISCO, I SLEPT THROUGH THE CITY TOUR - OOPS BIT TOO HUNGOVER, WE ARRIVED AT OUR HOTEL IN SAN FRAN... (MY TOUR FINISHED HERE BUT OTHERS HAD 2 DAYS IN SF THEN CONTINUED ON BACK TO LA) I HAD NO ACCOMMODATION BOOKED FOR THE NIGHT BUT MANAGED TO BUM TWO NIGHTS IN THE HOTEL FOR FREE! SAID GOOD BYE TO MOST OF THE CONTIKI CREW, BUT HUNG OUT A FEW DAYS WITH SOME OF THE OTHERS THAT STAYED ON IN SF... I SPENT A WEEK IN SAN FRAN, DID SOME COOL STUFF: RODE A CABLE CAR, [View Full Entry]

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Hey All, Techincally I'm in Tokyo while writing the first part of this (or just outside of it) and I just dropped $13 on noodles and a ginger ale... good bye Vietnam discount, hello Japan! I could not bring myself to schlep into Tokyo at 7:00am after two hours of plane sleep so I've been kickin' it here at the airport. Crashed out in a day room for some horizontal sleep and am now updating the blog. I can't save pictures from here so will add those when I'm back home. On to our last two days in Hoi An. Saturday, [View Full Entry]

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So here we are in San Francisco, the first stop on the new trip, my first time in America and I am loving it! I arrived Tuesday afternoon after a very long but uneventful flight with a dissapointing array of inflight films, I was hoping for Batman Begins, War of the Worlds or ............... but instead I got 'Bridget Jones's Diary: Part 2' and 'Hitch'...........hmmmm. Jen and I had got seperate flights so it was very strange when I was waiting in the hostel room to hear a knock at the door and find Jen on the otherside, all the way [View Full Entry]

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I then went from Vancouver directly to Seattle where I have some friends. I stayed at their place for almost a week. We explored the Seattle Space Needle, went to the EMP the Experience Music Project from Woody Allen (Best Museum I've ever been to). We saw the Flying Fish on the market and I even went to a Baseball Game, The Seattle Mariners against Baltimore Orioles. It was the game when Raffael Palmero had his 3000th Hit. They told me that was something special and I belived it... Very impressive was also the visit of the very active volcano Mt. [View Full Entry]

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Everything is pulled together. Paul, my son called from Berlin very early this AM wondering if we'd left for London and informed me there had been a t. bombing in Central London! I've gotten this far, so how can I let this incident stop us? Today, I set about copying documents I've been collecting over the years. Our time in Paris and french countryside seems almost Da Vinci code-ish! Before we trek into the french countryside to explore an ancestoral village/s and possibly see if there is a shrine been built for a recently canonized family member (Augustus Schoeffler) I want [View Full Entry]

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