Hi! We've made it as far as Dallas! We 'enjoyed' the longest check-in ever leaving Vancouver as we scrambled (or as much as one scrambles when waiting over and hour in a line) trying to figure out how to not have 3 small carry-ons and still have the food we need for a full day. Thankfully, they took pity on us given that they weren't feeding us. We have a 3-hour layover in Dallas and are enjoying these complementary internet terminals: fantastic given that we hadn't yet gotten our final confirmation from Rahim of Ringo Guest house in Delhi who has [View Full Entry]

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Day two of this trip started at night in Texas. With five states behind me, Texas was a big landmark in my path. I had never seen Texas before and I was very anxious to get there and experience what its landscape had to offer. As we entered the state, I realized we didn’t plan our entrance accordingly. It was pitch black in the night and all the way to Dallas was pretty much a dark void… a little disappointing for someone who had been waiting all day to see the scenery. From Dallas I merged onto I-35 N to head [View Full Entry]

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Perfectly relaxed from the day spent hiking and bathing, I ruin the whole relaxation by getting another Greyhound to Dallas. Nevertheless I make it there in the night, but realize that the Dallas Greyhound station is not THE place to be in the early hours. In fact, one might wonder why I would go to Dallas at all as, apart from being the place where JFK was assassinated in 1963, there is not a whole lot to do. The reason is that Steffi, who was an exchange student when I was in MI, happens to be there for the summer. Also, [View Full Entry]

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Dear Readers, It has been two weeks since I returned to the US from a very moving and life changing foreign exchange trip, and I have learned about the distinctive culture that is the Latin America of which I will not go into here (some of it is found in the other blogs and some of it one will have to experience for himself). I returned to Miami International Airport at 4:30 in the morning on the 29th and was exhausted, but excited to see my family that day. Due to storms, I paid to schedule an earlier flight and left [View Full Entry]

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At 4 'o clock we dropped a shaking Lola off to jail otherwise known as, "the vet", and we were off! Once off, without a Starbucks, because of dad who made stupid excuses like "traffic" and was unmoved by begging. In Norman, Dads road rage, which had already been in full power, after me telling him to calm down were not in a hurry he responded, "Settle down" kicked into overdrive as the boys started a new game, counting the cars that we passed and cheering, Highway Nascar. An hour or two passed uneventfully as Caleb listened to his iPod, and [View Full Entry]

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I leave in 15 hours and 4 minutes! Tomorrow afternoon I have a direct flight from Dallas to Tokyo and a 3 hour layover to catch my connection to Singapore. Since I bought my ticket to Singapore on airline miles I didn't get the best selection and will be arriving after midnight I'll be spending tomorrow night (well day after tomorrow technically) at the airport and taking a taxi to the hostel I have already reserved. That's about as far as I have really planned in depth. Mostly I have set a list of goals for each destination and will be [View Full Entry]

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Dallas to Memphis - 30°c Although it was neither a particularly late night nor an overly long day yesterday either since I’d had a lie in yesterday morning compared with other mornings, getting up at 7:15am ready for the coach departure at 7:45am felt really hard this morning! However there were certainly plenty of people who had much less sleep than I had after what was a late night for them at the bars. Once aboard the coach we started our journey over to Memphis which we all knew would be a long ride, even longer than our drive from Amarillo [View Full Entry]

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Temp: 35°C Day 31 once again started with very little sleep. We had an optional trip this morning for a drive out to Fort Worth, Texas. There was prob only about 20 of us that showed up, as tired as i was i figured i wouldnt get a chance to do this again any time soon so why waste my day in bed. It was about a half hour drive out there anyway on which we got to spread out on the seats and sleep anyway. We arrived in what was kind of like an old cowboy town that you see [View Full Entry]

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Dallas - 35°c (55% humidity) After last night’s fairly late end, I still managed to wake up fairly refreshed around 9am. After checking my email and surfing the web for a while from the comfort of my big hotel bed, I got up showered, dressed and headed out at 10am. Scott wanted a lie in this morning so I didn’t bother waking him up, leaving him a note instead telling him where I was headed off to and to text if he was around. Not that he’d have heard me anyway, when he’s wearing his earplugs and eye mask he usually [View Full Entry]

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Woken up by Michelle who was going on an optional day trip to Fortworth. I decided to give it a miss and sleep in. I was woken up by housekeeping and figured it was about 10-10.30? Checked about 10 clocks because I couldn't believe the real time - 1.30pm. Think my body's trying to tell me I need more sleep =P Missed everyone going to the 6th Floor Museum, so I walked down there by myself. It's all about JFK's assassination, and is on the 6th floor of the old book depository building where Lee Harvey Oswald was when he shot [View Full Entry]

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