It is strange to say but this will most likely be my last entry from Boston. The year has come to a close and I am ready to move on. In all, it has been around a 9-month waiting process since I applied to the JET Program back in November. However, it was well worth the wait and my excitement to return to Japan hasn’t wavered since the first day I filled in the application. In a matter of 8 days I will be heading off to Japan, and after a week of speeches and training in Tokyo, I will be [View Full Entry]

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First of all, let me deeply apologize to everyone for my *horrendous* spelling and typing mistakes in all my blogs. My mom was so sweet and downloaded all my entries to print out and asked if I wanted to make any changes first, so I did a spellcheck and discovered am embarrassing number of horrible mistakes... sorry!! About half the mistakes were just typos, since I never wanted to spend the extra time/money to recheck my blogs, and half I'm sorry to say were due to my lack of spelling skills... Only "N" I ever got in elementary school was in [View Full Entry]

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Hoping to set this all up and get it running before I go- Welcome to my travelblog! I'm not much of a writer, but I sure like to go and look and will certainly try to tell you what it is I am seeing. Here's the lowdown. I am leaving 1 WEEK FROM MONDAY on the longest and arguably the coolest trip I have made. Starting in Boston, flying to London, ending in the rainy rainy monsoon season of Northern India. Namely, and for about a month, the Rajasthan route- Dehli, Agra, Pushkar, Udaipur, Jodhpur. Shortly thereafter, we're headed through Himachal [View Full Entry]

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I last left you guys with me arriving in Boston after a rather gruelling 32 hours of flight. Spent the rest of the week working pretty much all day and all night, although the work was punctuated with lots of food and fun as well!! Still - was missing my girl, and getting far too many late nights, and it was all a bit too much - so when the weekend came up, I turned down all the kind offers for entertainment and opted to go check out Boston on my own!! So let me tell you a bit about Boston. [View Full Entry]

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Right! Time to write. It's always hard to get the first words out, however as you all know, once I get started it's hard to stop me!! I left Sydney on the 26th of July. Had an emotional farewell with my girl Sunday morning 7am at the airport. It was really sad to say bye - we were going to be apart for a whole 3 weeks, which is the longest we've ever been separated. So even though I was excited to be leaving on another expedition (yay!), I was also sad to be saying bye to my gorgeous wife (boo!). [View Full Entry]

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Ok, thank you to Cait for recommending this site. I think it will be a great way to keep our friends and families updated on our adventures! I leave on Tuesday and have begun the complicated task of fitting 20 pairs of shoes into an internal frame backpack. It just isn’t going to happen--I think 19 will have to do. My travels first take me to Hong Kong, where I'll spend some time in the office and overcoming my jetlag. I fly to Beijing on the 29th and will travel through China until August 11. We hit all of the major [View Full Entry]

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Mike says, "here we go, here we go, here we go!!" I don't really have much to say but I am looking forward to the jungle meat. Yum Yum!! And yes, mike did chop all of his hair off in this photo taken just moments ago! This is our super hero pose, sure to strike fear in the hearts of the villains everywhere! Y'all have a good summer!! Mike & Eric [View Full Entry]

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Do I really need to say any more than that? What a game, what a journey! Not much time left here at home. Trying to say all the good bye's that need to be said and do that last minute rushing around that always seems to accompany a long time away from home. If for some reason I didn’t get to you, please know that I did my best. My sister came into town for the 4th and it was great to hang out with her. She is moving to San Diego in August so the next time I see her [View Full Entry]

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Boston, the so called "hub of the solar system", this may be true but both me and Claire ‎have been ill and therefore didn't see much of the city at all. ‎ One day Claire was ill so we sat in the park, one day I was ill so ....... we sat in the hostel ‎and then in the park. ‎ The few occasions when we did venture out we made it as far as the Cheers bar the ‎inspiration for the US sitcom or just down the main street. ‎ On Sunday we watched the world cup final, we made [View Full Entry]

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Wow. I can't believe I'm leaving for Europe in 2 days. This is merely the first gigantic domino to topple over to really give my summer a swift kick in the pants. 2 weeks in Europe and then back to the States for 5 days, then I'm off to Santiago for my wedding which is actually happening after 8 months of coordinating, planning and waiting. All thanks go to my lovely bride-to-be, Joyce, for really putting everything together with very few arguements, fights and kicking and screaming, who else gets to plan a wedding without crazy mother-in-laws, wacko fainces (that's me) [View Full Entry]

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