Blogs from Georgia, United States, North America - page 93

Here's the link to my pics from Madrid. Enjoy! http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2056306&l=3f7c3&id=200129... read more

After a massive breakfast at the attached restaurant, we checked out of the nondescript Best Western, pleased that we weren't charged extra when I admitted that CJ had 'posted' the 2nd door card between the airconditioning louvres. We drove along the coast up to St. Pete's Beach, which sits at the bottom of a chain of islands roughly half-way up Florida's West Coast near Tampa. The beach sand was amazing - almost like bleached flour. I needn't have worried too much about the motel I booked in advance. It was divided into 2 rooms (always a bonus!) and was clean, if a little tired, on a main highway in Clearwater. The whole area reminded me a lot of Perth, with its water and causeways and laid-back atmosphere. We played minigolf on the first day and found ... read more

Hello Everyone, Hallo Alle Zusammen, friends and family, Freunde und Familie! The countdown to "lift-off" is ticking and I wanted to start by getting you all to add this website to your "favorites", so that you can follow my trip down-under via the WWW. I hope to make all of you jealous with the great pictures that are about to fill up this site, the stories of adventure travel and fun encounters with Koala’s, Kangaroo’s, Kiwis (the human and flying kind :-) and all sorts of other wild animals. Since this is the first go-around for me to keep a “public” travel journal, I beg our forgiveness for a lack of eloquent writing style (after all I was a business major who ended up a volleyball coach, and English is my second language :-) so if ... read more

Since Hope and I have arrived in Savannah we’ve spent most of our free time finding our way around town. We’ve been staring at maps and making wrong turns to locate close by grocery stores, the nearest Sam’s Club, and of course Hope’s hospital. Most of our quest has been for a gym and we’ve finally found one that meets our standards, although it was no easy task as the facilities were either too small or too smelly. We’ve apparently become gym snobs. Our apartment is spacious compared to Tahoe. We actually have adequate closet and cabinet space. It’s located in “Georgetown,” which is on the south side of Savannah. Georgetown isn’t like the charming historical downtown. It’s full of suburban strip malls and apartment complexes. But it’s none the less safe and convenient to the ... read more

It was a lovely mid-November afternoon. The sun was high in a cerulean sky and its warm rays were reflecting off of the choppy green surface of the bay. A light breeze filled our sails and propelled us towards the inevitable, a confrontation with the privateer Lynx. I was sailing aboard the Californian, a replica of an 1847 Revenue Cutter, which holds the title of “Official tall ship of the State of California”. The privateer Lynx, a replica of an 1812 Baltimore Clipper schooner, had come to take control of San Diego Bay and the Californian rose to the task of defending its home port. I was one of many volunteers who had signed on to help the crew of the Californian defend the bay - Oddly enough, the Lynx was filled with an equal number ... read more