Blogs from Indiana, United States, North America - page 23

Yay for my first blog entry!! I'm not used to blogging at all, so I figured I would get a head start :) So, I am SO excited about leaving tomorrow!! I guess it hasn't quite settled in that I'm leaving for 2 months yet, however I'm sure that will happen soon enough. The fact that its going to be chilly hasn't settled in yet, either. I looked up the weather in Liverpool for the first time, I think yesterday and the high is supposed to be around 63 degrees...and raining...for some reason it has been set in my mind that I was going to leave and it was automatically going to be "summer," therefore it was going to be warm and dry......wrooong. We had a lovely bon voyage cookout last night at the English household ... read more

just about 1 month to go. got everything ready, all the little bits and bobs that might be necessary......travel fan that weighs nothing, check. new cell phone with apps that translate languages and check current rates of money transfers... check. zune filled with music and rick steves walking tours of cities and museums with 2 way splitter.... check printouts of info and copies of pasports hidden in our packs.... check. only thing left is to drop off the dog, finish up the last few weeks of school put our shirts and socks and pants into the space bags, squeeze out the air and have teddy drive us up to chicago o'hare airport and drop us off. cant wait. i hope all our friends subscribe to this blog and give us feedback on our pics and things ... read more

waiting for the time to pass is so hard. still have a few months to go but weve got mostly all the stuff we need, probably buy our tickets this weekend and wait to find a great deal on a lightweight and small but durable tent...and we will be ready to go. decided we will fly in to prague and explore from there. this will be only the beginning, i simply can not let everyone else see the world and me just sit here any longer....grizz thankfully is up for adventure and im sure once we do this one we will have a better idea how to go as cheap as possible....hooray for the vagabond life!... read more

This is just a little blog to a) practise using this site, b) electronically start my trip in 2009 which seems to be advantageous somehow, and c) get my friends and family to subscribe to my blog now while they can still remember who I am. After a lovely send-off from Goga, Anna and Masha at passport control, I proceeded through Security. It went pretty quickly considering there was supposed to be extra security after the attempted bombing on a Christmas day transatlantic flight - or so I thought. I arrived at the gate in plenty of time...to queue for another hour. They performed pat-downs and bag searches on every single passenger. Behind me in the queue was the kind of American I had doubted existed, despite second-hand evidence to the contrary. He was large and ... read more

Hello all, and welcome to my travel blog. This is how I plan to stay connected to my friends and family while I am on my China adventure. As most if not all of you know, I am leaving for China early Friday morning and will return late Saturday night on October 31st (Halloween). I will spend 1 week in Nanjing doing the GK12 thing (I will tell you all about that later) and 2 weeks in Guangzhou doing the research thing (more about that later too.) I am totally new to this blogging thing, but I think that it will be a fun way to stay connected and everytime I encounter something strange or scary (for me like monkey brains on my plate with smiling faces starting at me waiting impatiently for me to eat ... read more