Blogs from Richmond, Virginia, United States, North America - page 7

It was a ten and a half hour difference between here and there. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t sleep past 3 AM on my second day back home. I finally got out of bed try of bed and tried to get my life back to normal. Throughout this day however, I had some harsh realizations that if “normal” was the way I was before I left for India, this way of life would no longer an option. On that early morning, I wandered into the kitchen. Although it seemed as if the rest of the world was sleeping, I knew that was not the case. At this very point in time for a myriad of people labored. Trying not to make too much noise, I decided to do the dishes that lay in ... read more

another day another greyhound. Richmond is just down the road. so what is Richmond like? Well the bus station is nice as is the industrial zone... And when I realised is was walking in the wrong direction the poor zone was just as nice. I really living in the classiest places.$50 gets you a cockroach infested room, cockroaches are extra tho. This one did have the stadium for the richmond braves next door. That's baseball. And wouldn't you know it they are playing later... So I get a ticket load up with beer nachos and corn dogs and find a seat. God decided to pay me back for taking pictures in his crib the other day and sent in the monsoon.. So no game, but seeing the braves body surfing on the infield raincover was pretty ... read more

We arrived home Wednesday afternoon. God blessed us with a safe trip of over 8100 miles. It seemed when we traveled toward home time dragged. It took 5 days to travel cross country by the “middle route”. We traversed the entire west-east length of Nevada, Wyoming and Nebraska. Then we dropped down to Kansas City, Missouri where we picked up I64. We drove through a small part of Illinois and Indiana, continued eastward through Kentucky, West Virginia and finally into Virginia. It was a great trip. This time we adjusted quickly to the RV routine and even the dogs seemed more relaxed. We are so grateful for the Cozy Turtle’s small size; it can handle narrow curvy roads and small parking places with no trouble. CT gives us a lot of flexibility. We saw beautiful and ... read more

So tuesday i got up Casey dropped me off at Keith's while he went out selling house's. I chilled out at keith's for a bit until he went to work then Jeremy came round and we went for food at Cafe ole. The weather was pretty bad on tuesday so after food we went round to Jeremy's house to chill out we watched some TV for a bit. The weather got better so we went for a walk and got a smoothie Hearty apple (apple banana and cinnamon) very good. Then I went back to Jeremy's and waited for Casey to get off work. Casey and his flat mate Chris had a football match. Playing in their friends team which was a co ed team, basically they played football with girls. I was kinda surprised but ... read more

Aright. So im chilling in Richmond today arrived last night. I got here met up with Casey and Keith and Keith/Casey's girlfriend Barbara. The train from Washington took 3 hours or two episodes of the shield and some staring out of the window. I will take you through what i got up to in Washington. I slept in on the Sunday got my lazy arse out of bed about 10.30 am then headed to Chinatown as some guys told me its good for places to eat. Walked through a massive car park on the way where their was some kind of preaching rally going on so i just carried on walking. Got to Chinatown and there were like about 60 people all stood on this corner around this guy so i thought cool maybe he is ... read more