Hi, this is David Paulsen, you are are listed on the travel blog for David and Barbara Paulsen. I will be traveling to China, Russia, Kazakhstan and Vietnam without Barbara in the Fall and Winter of 2009. If you have been following our travels, Barbara writes the blogs, you may want to click the unsucribe at the bottom of the page. Travelblog asked that we do no delete emails that we don't recognize because there are individuals that have subscribe whom we do not know... For those of you who hang in there here's the deal. I have wanted to do [View Full Entry]

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Our main event today was visiting Hoover Dam. It turned out that we came on a good day, which was surprising since it was a Saturday, because we were able to park really easily and we didn't have to wait that long for our tour to start. Our tour guide told us that on other days in the summer it could be a 2 hour wait just to park. We decided to do the full blown Dam Tour. There is also a Power Plant Tour, or just entrance to the Visitor's Center. But, we picked the Dam Tour because you get [View Full Entry]

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Seems Like three years. Is it at least August yet? No, not even close. I am sure I am aging faster over here in the west, but time sure goes a lot slower. She is over there in the far east doing new and exciting and wonderful things and I am here at work just trying to stay awake. Here are some pics from AAron's ball game 3/21/09. Melissa and Morissa and AAron and Me. In the picture of me and just the hat I was thinking about "The Letter" so I did not really need to hold on to the [View Full Entry]

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We are just 2 days away from leaving for our summer travels. We are planning a trip to Yosemite National Park and from there will go to the coast and then follow the Pacific Coast to the Portland, OR area. We will then head east along the Columbia River Gorge with a stop in the Tri-Cities area. We will then head to Lewiston, ID for a short stop and then on to Montana where we plan to spend 4-5 weeks visiting the state. Although Barb grew up in "Big Sky Country" there is a lot neither of us have seen. We [View Full Entry]

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We arrived home Sunday, August 5, on our 35th wedding anniversary. What a great trip. The latter part of our trip was filled with visiting friends and relatives and a surprise purchase. We visited friends and family in Great Falls as well as a trip to the Montana State Fair where we stopped by the Sons of Norway booth for a Viking Meatball. This is a LARGE meatball on a stick made from 3 meats and a "secret" spice mixture. The meatballs are cooked ahead of time then put on a stick, dipped in a batter and deep fat fried before [View Full Entry]

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Hi Everyone, After finishing off in Las Vegas we took ourselves to the airport and rented a car. (Carries idea not mine I had to drive lol ) We decided to do a road trip for 10 days making our way from Las Vegas to Denver stopping at Bolder city, Grand Canyon, Zion Canyon , Bryce Canyon and Salt lake city and then finally finishing off in Denver. We phoned the airport and got quoted 600 dollars for the 10 days which we thought was brilliant, when we got there after adding on insurances etc it was 1100 dollars LOL what [View Full Entry]

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Today’s breakfast buffet was incredible. We found it in Henderson en route to the Hoover Dam. What a remarkable scene. The kids spirits were kind of down when we arrived to the dam because everyone was tired, but most found it interesting. Unfortunately, Tom has been fighting a cold, so his experience was not as enjoyable as it could have been. The rest of this day was spent in the car driving to the Red Feather Lodge. We go to the Grand Canyon tomorrow. Boy, the temperature sure dropped as we climbed in elevation. [View Full Entry]

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Après la soirée à Las Vegas, nous avons décidé de prendre une journée plus relaxe que prévue.. Nous avons donc été manger dans un buffet chinois débil-super-méga-écoeurant avec un gril mongol, puis sommes partis à Hoover Dam pour constater que c'était un gros barrage. Finalement, en fin d'après-midi, nous avons repris la route vers l'ouest en direction de Death Valley et de la Californie. On se revoit là-bas! (p.s. j'ai rajouté une galerie d'images de ce voyage dans "gallery" http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Beren/Gallery/ ) [View Full Entry]

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. This morning we are practically in the middle of nowhere - so there is no Coffee Shack/Java Hut, grocery store or other distraction - all we have to worry about is making sure we have enough water. This means we can get going relatively early - for us! The sky is blue with no clouds and it is warm… Statistics Starting Destination: Panamint Springs, California Ending Destination: Boulder Dam, Nevada Ending Destination GPS: N: 35° 59.516’ W: 114° 49.859’ Elev: 2182’ Miles Driven: 258.4 Distance Hiked: 3 mil [View Full Entry]

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