Met famous NZ rapper Savage at JFK airport during a stopover before flying to Burlington, Vermont to visit a couple who were getting married. Checked in to a motel, went to the bride’s family’s lake house where they gave us a speed boat tour of Lake Champlain. [View Full Entry]

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I suggest going to Vermont, U.S.A in fall. The fall in Vermont is selected by National Geographic as the place where we should go before we die. It’s good place to who wants to take a rest and see beautiful sight. In your window desktop, you can see a picture of the fall in Vermont. Visit Vermont on October, the best season. You can enjoy these things with beautiful yellow and red leaves and hardwood trees. And many villages celebrate the fall with festivals. You can enjoy it, too. But, I do not suggest to the people who want to [View Full Entry]

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OK. First, a confession: When I posted the first entry here and called it “56 days to go…” I was wrong. Apparently, in my excitement, I jumped the gun a little and miscounted. But this time, I’m sure of my dates, and now it is 7 days to go. Really. Preparations have continued! More reservations have been made, more email confirmations have been received, more credit card transactions have been processed, and a pile of items has begun to collect in my open suitcase. I had the great pleasure of giving my mom a tetanus/diphtheria booster, a polio vaccine, and a [View Full Entry]

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Not much to report, except that I am in the countdown phase of travel planning. I can tell you how many days until we leave. (56) I could tell you what airline we're flying and how long the flight will be. I could tell you how many vaccinations and visas we will need. I could tell you what hotels we will stay in. I could tell you what foods I am looking forward to eating, and in what languages I need to learn to say "hello," "please," "thank you," and "where's the bathroom?" I could tell you which guidebooks I've bought, [View Full Entry]

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Winter Break in Stowe this year was the best ever. Snow was in abundance, weather was nice, and EVERYONE WAS IN STOWE! Days on the mountain and nights at the Matterhorn, the Shed, and Ladies. A big crew from Watitoh was there as Kyle has moved to Stowe for the season and Adam Rickel flew in from Florida. Other unexpected Stowers were Ritchie Scheim, And the usuals, Kligers, Dubrovskys, Saskins, Newpols, Jospes, and everyone else... We all missed, Cappy, Plug and Congz. [View Full Entry]

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For sometime now, we had been dreaming of a driving holiday - The Thanksgiving weekend seemed a perfect time to revv up. So we decided to take a road trip heading south from Boston along the coast. A storm brewing up along the entire eastern coast, however, laid that idea to rest. That’s when we decided to stop trying to avoid the cold and to head north for the snowy slopes of Vermont. And what a fabulous idea it was. Luckily we managed to book some hotels and headed off early on Friday morning. We had a rough itinerary in our [View Full Entry]

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In just a few days I will head out on the first leg of my trip to Saudi Arabia. First I will be travelling south to Houston. Aramco, the Saudi oil company, will give us an orientation. Then, on the busiest travel day of the year (in the states) we will head from Houston to Frankfurt, Germany and then to Bahrain. I assume from Bahrain (an archipelago of some 30+ islands) we will take the causeway to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Until then - Michael [View Full Entry]

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Obfuscator writes: The vast improvements over Day 60 started early, when we left our motel room to find that it was not raining. Cranberry Lake was pretty in the daylight, though the town bearing the same name had little to offer. We drove on toward Lake Saranac, and Lake Placid. If you like nice little lakes in wooded mountains with fall colors, this is a great place to visit, particularly in the fall. We took a little walk around in Lake Saranac, since it had a visitor's center with a stoplight on top of its tower. It also had large friendly [View Full Entry]

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Thursday, August 30, 2007, Charleston Pond, Vermont. Darrin began his day by leaving his Charleston Pond campsite, portaging into Pensioner Pond, and making his way back to the Clyde River. It would be a long day because the Clyde offered no public campsites. The next decent site would be along Island Pond, 22 miles up the water trail. On the Clyde, his upstream efforts continued, with this particular section being swampy with lushly vegetated banks. Darrin enjoys live animal sightings, but he was no less intrigued to see some fiberglass wildlife - big fiberglass wildlife. On a small [View Full Entry]

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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007. After a layover day in Newport, Darrin headed back to the water trail. His day started with a portage to Salem Pond to avoid three near-continuous miles of upstream whitewater. He crossed Salem and Little Salem Ponds and ended up in a set of meanders that funneled him into the Clyde River, another upstream leg of his journey. The Clyde was shallow and swift, requiring lots of lining and pulling, plus a haul over the West Charleston Dam Portage. After the dam, Darrin put in on little Charleston Pond, and paddled to its headwaters. His day ended [View Full Entry]

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