Today is the second day in Greensboro. On Monday I got here around noon and checked in. However, we had all gone out in DC to go bowling and Marek kept buying me delicious Blue Moon pints. Took us an hour to walk home after the ally closed at midnight. Apparently DC blocks take forever to walk. Plus there was a ridiculous moment every other block, like begging Dominos guys to reopen for pizza, riding the basic frame of a bike, or pushing me into a flowerbed. I passed out pretty fast on the fouton once we got back, that is [View Full Entry]

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I just got my housing assignment in the mail today. I am living on Corso dei Tintori which is right on the Arno River and only 2 minutes walking distance from FUA's campus! The apartment is on the first floor (thankfully) and it houses 9 girls. Amber & I are both excited to meet our 7 roommates. The apartment looks beautiful. I am really happy with the match. I am starting to get everything together and am sadly finding out that packing is going to be an all day event on Wednesday. However, now I don't feel so iffy about bringing [View Full Entry]

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Hayley drove us from Raleigh 2 Greensboro and we got in late afternoon. Dropped all our stuff off at Hayley's student digs and then headed 2 get some food at an Irish bar (there must be more Irish bars in the USA than there is bars in Ireland!!) The food was real good and the pint of Boddingtons went down well. Went 2 back 2 Hayley's 4 2 catch some zzz. In the mornin got up and sorted out r train tickets 2 New Orleans which took 4 ages. Amtrak the major rail company in America have at times been the [View Full Entry]

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After two packed days of visiting Duke, it was nice to take it slow and digest all that I had seen and heard. So for my last two days in North Carolina I head in to downtown Greensboro and found a great hang out, Alex's Cheesecakes. There I was able to get caught up online while the dogs waited in the car for their walk. The weather was beautiful and Greensboro is small enough that you can see all of it by foot before getting close to being tired, quite the opposite of walking around DC. [View Full Entry]

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Goodmorning! This morning I'm writing from a cheerfully lit library in Greensboro as my Red Roof Inn has no internet connection. That's okay though, because it helps to get me out and about. I DO like the fact that it's fine with Red Roof that I'm traveling with two pups. There isn't even an additional charge. Well let me back up a tad. I left Taylorsville for the arduous 2 hour drive to Greensboro yesterday afternoon. After spending 7 wonderful nights relaxing with Denise I was almost anxious to be moving on. And I arrived at my hotel around dusk, [View Full Entry]

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Yay Greensboro, NC. First off I must mention the irony in that it took us only 3.5 hours to travel the nearly 300 miles to Greensboro while it usually takes almost 4 hours to travel the 130 miles to the beach. I wish we had a private helicopter to fly us to the beach because if only we could drive across the bay where we are in VA it would only be a 45 minute drive. But alas, no bridge there... So, North Carolina. We went and stayed with Phil and Melissa and had a blast hanging out with them, Brian [View Full Entry]

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Barely to Mebane -- and we find ourselves in J&R to pick up some travelling sticks. A Picture of Maple on the road. [View Full Entry]

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Ok, just a test run to figure out how this all works. Trying to get the hang of it before we set off traveling this weekend! Moving Across the Pond Well we have finally done it! After many months of planning and preparation, we have sucessfully moved ourselves, and our cat, from London to the USA...furniture on the way! We been here for nearly 2 weeks now and have spent most of our time preparing for our upcoming mammoth of a road trip... with a little R&R mixed in too! We plan to set off on the road this weekend and [View Full Entry]

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