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A sunny early start in Philli. Weather very hot as we queued with our giude to get tickets to Constitution Hall. Was worth waiting for as this is where the declaration of independance was made. Then on to see the Liberty bell - its cracked you know. Our time was all to soon over and it was back on the bus bound for Washington. Washington was nothing how I expected and I did not believe that the pentegon was so close to the White house (only a couple of miles away. In the evening we wnet out to dinner with the [View Full Entry]

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I'm feeling more like I love Africa now that I'm home than I did when I was there. I miss it. I miss the people and the lovely spirit of togetherness. I miss the management style of "family spirit" that I witnessed at TASO. I think my mind was clouded by my longing for home - I really did have a good time. I learned a lot and now I am eager to go back.... Just not for 4 months. [View Full Entry]

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Wednesday 28th May - Thursday 29th May We took the 9:05am flight to Washington DC which required an early start and another trip on Chicago’s Public Transport system. The flight to Washington was pretty easy with the exception of the two brats who were seated behind us. We took public transport to our motel which was pretty easy. The only issue was how far it was from the Metro Station (we were to find when we were leaving DC that there was a free shuttle ). The place was nice been a suite and having a separate kitchen. It also had [View Full Entry]

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Since I've left and returned, something in me has changed, but I can't quite determine what. There's this fire in me to make my mark on the world and experience all that life has to offer. And now more than ever do I realize that the good comes with the bad...the sweet isn't so sweet without the sour. As I was experiencing Brussels and expanding my educational horizon, my 94-year-old grandfather passed away in his sleep on Monday evening. I'm still fighting (mostly with myself) the frustration I feel since my family didn't tell me until yesterday evening once I was [View Full Entry]

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Hello World! This being my first blog entry, I haven't much to say, except that I am leaving for Christmas break in Sweden with my family in only one week and 2 days! Before this time, I have to turn in all the right forms for my practicum, for graduation, and for other school-related things, finish one 20-page paper, finish one group paper, finish one report for work, go to one long meeting over the next day and a half, write meeting minutes for that meeting, and finish a report for my department at school. Not to mention the fact that [View Full Entry]

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I woke up in bed with Claudia today which is always a good way to start the day. However it was at 6 AM. Not so great. We said our goodbyes and headed in opposite directions as she went north to Boston and I started my journey south. By 10 AM I'd been in four different states. I finally made it into DC around 1 PM today. I met up with David R., a kid I use to work with back at Brandeis. He graduated in 2005 and has spent the last two years on the the island of Barbuda in [View Full Entry]

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So, we just set up our blog. We're ecstatic about our upcoming trip to the South Pacific. Over the past decade or so we've both been in school/residency/postdoc fellowship (and you've been wondering when the heck we'll be done!) and while indeed we've had our share of sh*ts and giggles, for the most part we've been waiting to really celebrate our 'freedom'! You know the 'we should start having kids' has crossed our minds so before we go down THAT road ... we wanted to cut loose first! So here it is. We are going on our dream vacation (for now!) [View Full Entry]

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We are safely back in Arlington after catching back-to-back red-eye flights (Brisbane to L.A. and L.A. to BWI). We are a little weary, but a much more worldly and we got here with all our luggage. Amazing! I did not have computer access while in Australia (the beaches were too nice anyway), and so I didn't know the Travel Blog site had crashed the day we left Vietnam. Most of my entries were lost, but can be recovered. It will just take some time and I'll attempt to do this over the next couple of days between opening 7 weeks of [View Full Entry]

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So I'm here in DC still, it's so hot I can barely stand to be outside during the day, but I've given some motorcycle-tours at night and in the morning. The other day I jetted up to Bob's BMW in Maryland and got myself a new tire. Dave, one of the mechanics kept asking if I wanted these various little rubber plugs or plastic caps put in to replace the pipe cleaners or duct tape I was using to improvise. So I ended up getting some things fixed up and a new tire, and some new handgrips I'll have to install [View Full Entry]

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