Blogs from Boston, Massachusetts, United States, North America - page 23

We started our trip with a train ride to Boston. From there we drove to Woods Hole for the night awaiting our ferry to Martha's Vineyard the following morning.... read more

It is August 14 which means that I must have just spent two weeks in Boston. While I'm sitting in the airport waiting to board a flight to Las Vegas "disoriented" is perhaps the best way to describe my current state. Three weeks ago I was in Madrid finishing my MBA. Two weeks ago I was in Porto saying good-bye to everyone and everything that I'd come to love over the past year. The past 14 days have a been a roller-coaster of interviews, abusing the MBTA, fast food, life-altering choices, and most importantly reunions with friends from college, Indiana, Peace Corps, and past colleagues. As I try to describe it all perhaps"overwhelming" is a better adjective. Boston in the summer is a beautiful place. Despite the hour long trips on the B-train and waiting for ... read more

For those of you kind enough to follow and read my Sabbatical blog let me first say, "Thank you!" It is much more enjoyable to write when I imagine there is an actual audience reading what I post. After you accept my thanks, then please also accept my apology. I have kept a written journal for most of the summer, but as you already know I have fallen terribly behind with keeing my writing and pictures up to date on the blog. For this I am terribly sorry. I originally fell behind when I went on active duty for the Air Force and did not have the time nor a good internet connection to keep the blog fresh with our cruise pictures. I am now at Boston College for a two week course on Christology. Since ... read more

Der er pakket og vi skal hjem efter mere end to ugers ferie her med masser af indtryk og oplevelser. Vi har hygget os sammen, fået snakket og grinet meget :-) På vej til lufthavnen tager vi en tur forbi Salem ved kysten. Salem er kendt for deres hekse, og man må sige, at der var masser af dem. Hanne følte sig helt hjemme :-). Frokosten i Salem var ikke noget hit. Vi ventede en evighed på vores burgere som bare var en burgerbolle med et stykke salat, tomat og en bøf, og sodavanden var flad. Det må nok siges, at være vores dårligste måltid på hele turen. Bilen blev afleveret uden problemer. Det eneste problem vi havde var at finde den rigtige vej til Hertz. GPS'en svigtede os og ledte os den forkerte vej, så ... read more

You would think, that after a year of planning my backpacking trip that I would have everything completed and done. But of course not! As I type this, I have repacked more times than Paris Hilton has boyfriends, I've ran to the nearest store to by that last minute trial size bottle of shampoo, paid my bills on time (nothing is more suckier then returning home from vacation with a LAST WARNING envelope hanging on your doorstep), and completed my odds and ends. So why do like I am missing something? I think it has to do with the uncertainty of backpacking. I've traveled around the world with tour groups and a security blanket of everything being taken care of. Drop me in the middle of the Sahara with 30 people and I'm cool as a ... read more