Well, it's the day before we leave for our trip. The teachers/college students (Jerid, Megan, and Erin) are waiting for the 9-5ers (Krystal, Brady, and Cliff) to get out of work so we can head up to Rochester for the night and be at the airport by 4:30am. For people who don't know all of us going on this trip, here is who we are. FYI, we all live in the Binghamton area currently. Brady, from upstate NY (knows Erin), met Megan at college, works with Cliff. Megan, from Adirondacks, met Brady at college, going to local college for Doctorate. Jerid, [View Full Entry]

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Dear Friends, Romans, & Family Members, With fond memories of a Sweet (Suite) visit with the Svihuses, we left Maine for Brookline, New Hampshire where we had stayed previously and we knew it was still open. Got back into our Road Routine. We then left for New York, crossing Massachusetts on Highway 2 going to New York. It was a beautiful drive...another scenic highway through The Berkshires at their in-between seasons. We arrived in Binghamton, NY as we knew that this campground was still open. Again no water hookups, but electricity is so welcome as then we have heat without running [View Full Entry]

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Tuesday. Oct 30th. Niantec, CT to Oyster Bay, NY. We had a horrible night at anchor the boat was rolling all night. Vito wanted to be underway by 0700 to catch the tide going south in Long Island. By sunrise as we made ready, the laptop wouldn’t catch the signal from the GPS antenna. An hour went by and I got ready to navigate by paper and then Vitto decided to erase Norton and discovered that it was blocking entry to the necessary computer port. We left the anchorage at 0816 with the tide 1.5 kts. in our favor and GPS [View Full Entry]

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I do enjoy writing this blog - it serves two important functions. Firstly, it makes me feel like I’m doing something productive - unadulterated leisure makes me restless. Secondly, it allows me to escape the company of five smelly blokes and feel a little bit in contact with the rest of the world. Tonight I am in Ithica, the nicest hotel so far with a sauna, indoor and outdoor pool, fitness room and most importantly, Street Fighter 2 machines for a quarter a time, all of which I have made use of. The coffee with creamer (definitely not a white coffee, [View Full Entry]

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I finally starting my travel journal! I would have done this sooner, even before I left but I've been ridiculously busy. I'm finally in Scotland, in my flat, in the right classes, with food, and bedding, and now internet. I guess I'm figuring it out! It's been so hectic though, going through orientation and then moving and having to start classes immediately. So lets start from the beginning! My flight left from JFK on Monday the 1st in a horrible storm. I got to the airport around 1:30 and checked in around 2. There were a few people from my program [View Full Entry]

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It's late, I know. But i can't sleep. Long ago, on outward bound, I had a motto, we had a motto.... sleep when your dead! I get into this mind set everytime something big is happening. Going to college, saying goodbye to friends, leaving for a while, moving... And I usually end up paying for it once things calm back down, but my mind never stops and I try to live it up! My mom, my step dad and I just watched Elizabethtown. One of my favorite movies. One of those laugh, cry, laugh and cry, movies. It was nice, spending [View Full Entry]

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THERE ARE VIDEOS ATTACHED TO THIS BLOG... PLEASE WATCH! --------------------- What a wonderful weekend I just had. The week was rough... had to finish the cakes and it wore me out a bit. Hopefully these pictures, of my home and surrounding areas, will give some of you a better idea of what's it's like where I live! My grandma's birthday was Saturday and we all gathered at Mom & Charlie's house for an evening with the family! Definately fun and I got to see some people on my mother's side of the family that I rarely see so... it was [View Full Entry]

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We have covered a lot of territory. Yesterday we were a little lost and drove down even into Pennsylvania before turning back to the Finger Lakes Region. To see the Peter Whitmer Home we were on the wrong side of one of those lakes but just kept on going through the beautiful grape-growing areas along those long laeks . Truth is, the lake and scenery reminded is quite a bit of the vineyards and scenes near Versoix (Geneva) Switzerland on the lake there. We stopped for a wine-flavoured ice-cream dish that was really good. (no fear for driving or word of [View Full Entry]

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So, its been a few more days again since I wrote... Well now everything is completely fucked up and now got some planning to do... Ok so here is the start of it. Well yesterday I packed my backpack to leave this morning at 7 am... However, with those big ass storms flooding everywhere we have to detour our trip some. The plan was to go to Binghamton, NY and Spencer, NY (close to Ithaca) and then head home by way of military as you know... Well the route we were going to take has been taken out by the floods. [View Full Entry]

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So... Yeah, this is my first blog and I figured I would get started about a week ahead of schedule... I am heading to Binghamton, NY and some places in New Hampsire... Its just a reunion of my step family... But its still travel right?!?! However the way I travel is with the military. I travel through space available flights and really never know exactly where I will end up. Its fun and stressful at the same time... So just going to NY I might have to go through California and Canada! Well thats all for now and I will write [View Full Entry]

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