Odd that those words rarely inspire...and continue in that fashion even today. Rather than just going west we packed up my pint-sized civic last Thursday and headed...east. Maybe it was because Stefanie has a sister who lives in Boston, or maybe because there are some pretty cool climbing destinations in New Hampshire and Maine respectively; more likely yet is that my neuroses took hold and prevented me from simply starting at an arbitrary point like...New York. And thus began the "tag up" - heading east to go west. In typical lackluster fashion, the plan soon changed from climbing in N [View Full Entry]

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Nothing is better than being off my feet for a good while at this point. Voila, the free trolley ticket I got yesterday came in handy so I spent my second day morning riding around town before getting off at Sheraton hotel where I got on. My feet liked me that morning. Yesterday we had dinner at one of the restaurants in Faneuil Hall Marketplace. The best way to get there was to take subway. This Boston subway ride has given me more appreciation of DC subway and you'll see why. Above the ground Boston seems close to a heaven to [View Full Entry]

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So After another few days without filling in my blog i will try to fill it in more now. Let me see sunday i did pretty much nothing i watched the Spain vs Italy match washed some clothes had the worst nights sleep ever due to a snorer. Which sucked because monday I had a big day planed. I woke up at 7am and got some breakfast. Walked to get a sea bus (which is a boat not a bus) over to the north shore. I met Fiona and we headed up to grouse mountain. Which was a short drive. Here [View Full Entry]

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My first chapter of New England adventure started in Boston, Massachusetts. The city I had heard about for a long time but never had a chance to experience it myself. Well, I can't complain this time. I had 3 full days in Boston and I had to make the most out of this opportunity. Why 3 days? because Doug had a conference here. So now you can probably guess that I was exploring Boston alone but that's okay. Solo or duo, I was ready. First off I had to say that we were lucky. Our hotel was right in the middle [View Full Entry]

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Yes i know you all knew it... i tried hiding it for a while, but you know these things happen hehehe... so we are in Boston... well, we have been since Sunday evening and we leave (early) tomorrow morning, so here are the adventures in between... Sunday, not alot... getting maps and getting lost is about all.. oh and watching the weather channel and working out what the Celcius conversions were hehehe... predicted severe thunderstorms for the Boston region for Monday... Monday... despite severe thunder storm warning, we headed to Harvard... when we got there, the sky was BLACK and the [View Full Entry]

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Wir wurden 2 Tage lang komplett verwöhnt in Boston. Wir wohnten bei Woody - einem Freund von Nathan (Freund aus Nex Mexico) - beide ursprünglich aus Thailand - in einem riesigen Haus. Wir haben 2 Tage lang nichts bezahlt, weil Woody sehr sehr nett ist und auch ziemlich reich.. Er ist Besitzer eines Thai Restaurants, das offensichtlich ziemlich gut läuft. Hab dort Hummer bekommen.. War ein cooles Erlebnis - und vor allem ein billiges! Haben nur 20 Euro pro Busfahrt nach Boston bezahlt, das war alles, was wir in dieser Zeit gebraucht haben. Es lebe die Gastfreundschaft und der Reichtum!!!! No [View Full Entry]

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It's Friday, and I fly on Monday to Rio. I've just had a brilliant few days wrapping up school - the play turned out to be fab, the last day was fun, we had an excellent pool party, interupted by a couple of vaccinations, then more tom foolery in the pool splashing about with my students. Usually I get hurt at the end of year party, but this year I got away scott free! I met up with Lucille, Eric, Mike C, Kristin, Karen, Kristina, Adrian, et al for a fun bash at Orleans in Davis Square, then rode home very [View Full Entry]

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Well, here it is - my very last update from the state of Massachusetts and potentially from the USA altogether. Today (Thursday, 6/19), I depart for Washington DC one last time in order to pay a visit to my brother and all of his friends. As I was telling my mom the other day, the planning for this weekend reminds me of one of my birthdays when I was a kid; I think it was my 10th. I had slept in or taken a nap or something that day and when I woke up, my brother was wearing a birthday hat [View Full Entry]

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testing, testing, 1,2,3, testing. This is my first time posting to the TravelBlog. We are headed to Boston in a few weeks and I would like to journal our trip. Practicing seems like the best way to learn. I would hate to get there and not be able to post after telling friends and family of our plans. I will be practicing with entries and adding photos that have little or nothing to do with Boston. Here we go! [View Full Entry]

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One week to go, then away on my next 'big day out'. This time, I'm off to Brazil, and I hope some of you will write to me as I pass through the seven or so weeks I intend to spend there. I fancy visiting some splendid islands for tropical fish and the like, the Amazon, for obvious reasons, and the wildlife paradise, the Pantanal, for added exotica. Hopefully, I'm going to meet up with my good friend Eric for a portion of the tour. Right now, I have an exciting and action packed week ahead wrapping up the School year [View Full Entry]

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