Day 1: It’s been 9yrs A redeye flight to AA arrived shortly after 6am, wide awake although I wasn’t able to sleep much on a plane. Still dark outside, the sun was just about to start to come out. On the way to AA, there were familiar names of freeway exits but completely lost - disappointing. It’s been a long time. But once I got to State x South U, it all came back to me Started to see places that I used to go to and I was in business. By far, the most appropriate place to kick off the [View Full Entry]

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Two years later and it's off to India again! Like the last two trips we'll try to get on here at least every other day and let everyone know what's going on. Sometimes the internet connection where we are is slow-to-none so be patient if it takes a few days. This trip is even more difficult for me because of my son, EV. Last time he was just a baby and now he's my little man. He doesn't like it when I go to work! Mitch, Laurel, Debbie, Phil, and I will be visiting most of the same places we went [View Full Entry]

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After spending most our the past month working and only thinking about work, now we can focus on our trip. The countdown is on. We leave Sunday, May 3rd, and now we have to figure out how to pack for 6 weeks. [View Full Entry]

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Favor: Could everyone who is interested in reading this blog sign up as a subscriber? It doesn't involve being on any spam lists, you'll just get an email whenever I make a new post. It will be much easier for me to stay in touch that way. One Week Out Final Preparations So one week from today is my flight from O'Hare to Heathrow, and one week from Monday I'll arrive in Lilongwe. At this point, it's still a rather arbitrary statement for me to say that I'm going to be living in rural Sub-Saharan Africa this summer, and about 200 [View Full Entry]

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Planning our Trip Still in Ann Arbor planning our trip. Bought plane tickets from Chicago to Dublin, Dublin to Manchester and then hostels in Paris. Think Mike & Kellen will be joining us in London and the click is planning the UK part of our trip out for us. Getting so excited! Now just have to figure out how to pack light enough for our trip. More Later-- R [View Full Entry]

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Prep for Travel 20 Days til I leave... Moni (that's hello in Chichewa): So I'm starting to play around with all of this site to see if I can get it to work, so put up with me if I mess some stuff up at first. A little background people who aren't too sure about what I'm doing this summer: * I will be living in rural Malawi from May 4th to August 20th (though I will be out of the us from May 2nd to August 21st with travel times. * I will be working on a research project through [View Full Entry]

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Just a test post to make sure I have all of this working. [View Full Entry]

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So, after a 14 hour flight from Sydney to LA, an 8 hour lay over in LAX, and a 4 hour flight to Detroit, I found myself back at home at 2 am not quite sure which time zone my head, body, or heart were in. (Can we get any more cheesy than that ?!?) The rest of my Sydney trip was incredible. Most notably, I climbed to the top of the Sydney Harbor Bridge, and was able to view the Northern and Southern ends of the Sydney Harbor from standing atop of the highest peak of the bridge. Words really [View Full Entry]

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Well, the backpack is packed to the absolute brim, and my room is emptied out for the subletter that's moving in. I can't believe I am actually leaving for this trip that I started planning a year ago. I will arrive in LA around 5:45pm (LA time) and my flight to Nadi, Fiji doesn't take off until 10:30pm. Sigh. I downloaded some movies onto my IPod and have a lot of books, so I will hopefully be able to entertain myself. I arrive in Nadi early in the morning on Friday, January 30th. I actually lose an entire day in travel, [View Full Entry]

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greetings from a very snowy michigan! since i arrived in chicago a week ago, it has barely stopped snowing, which makes for beautiful scenery, dangerous roads and wet socks. it's been really freezing, today is a chilly -12 degrees. i was under the impression that if it was below zero it was too cold to snow, but that theory has definitely been proven wrong! as i sit here, i can see a squirrel (oh, nope, apparently it's a chipmunk!) jumping around in the snowy branches of a tree outside. very cute! since the last time i wrote, lynne and i did [View Full Entry]

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