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North America » United States » Virginia » Damascus May 26th 2008

I decided late on Saturday night of Memorial Day weekend to take a little holiday to western Virginia with my bike. There's a trail that runs from Abingdon to just past Whitetop, through Damascus, called the Virginia Creeper Trail. It's about 34 miles long and follows the old railroad bed of the Virginia Carolina Railroad. It's a great shared-use National Recreation Trail that goes through the Mount Rogers National Recreation Area in the Jefferson National Forest. I got up Sunday and took the scenic route to Damascus where I started my ride to Whitetop and back. I fully enjoyed it...even with an 18 mile uphill climb the first day--1646 vertical feet. ***If you decide to go, most people rent a bike from one of the many bike shops in Damascus, take a shuttle to Whitetop, and ... read more
Elevation profile of the trail
The map that shows where I finally made it to
Whitetop Station

North America » United States » Virginia » Arlington May 26th 2008

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 back home. I'm frustrated that last weekend when I was boarding the plane to Belgium, my entire family was at Grandpa's side to spend time with him and say their goodbyes. However, he was obstinate ... read more

North America » United States » Virginia » Alexandria May 24th 2008

Hola! Hopefully this site will serve as a way to keep everyone updated as to what we are up to while we are in South America. We're not sure exactly what the internet situation will be, but I'm assuming we will have access on the weekends-- so hopefully a few entries can get up during that time-- we shall see. So, for those of you that don't know, Ryan and I will be heading down to Ecuador for about 6 weeks. We fly out Monday and return in early July. Once we get there, we will be spending a few days in Quito. From there we will head out to the Galapagos Islands and staying at a biological reserve, helping with various conservation activities. More to come on the specific details later once we get there ... read more

North America » United States » Virginia » Richmond May 24th 2008

Greetings from Casey's Couch. Its my last night in Richmond im off to Atlanta tomorrow lunch time i arrive at 8am on sunday crazy I have to go via Greensboro North Carolina wait for 6 hours for the train to Atlanta that will be fun. To top it all off i got tattooed today so i will have a sore right arm to go with the 20 hours of traveling and waiting.... I see this as character building. My tattoo is of a tiger it kinda covers my upper right arm its pretty big i will get a picture and upload a pic on the weekend. If i said it didn't hurt i would be lying but it looks well good. So let me see Yesterday i got up went to Keiths where Breeman (ryan) was ... read more

North America » United States » Virginia » Richmond May 22nd 2008

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

North America » United States » Virginia » Richmond May 20th 2008

Pop Up Escape #2 Now, it is time for the Pop-Up Escape #2 and we are heading out to go to Newfoundland...all last year, people said you needed to do a separate trip to that country so that it what is on the schedule. We have purchased a new electric blanket and we will need it, I'm sure. I'll hopefully keep a running map so you can see where we are and you can just delete if you don't want to participate or look at any pictures. I believe this blog idea will work better than the way I did it last year. When you click on the link below and it opens, I would put it in your favorites so that it will be easy for you to check the blog. When it opens, click ... read more


We're leaving tomorrow morning at 5am. GET EXCITED NEW ORLEANS!!!!!! ready for some Little Mermaid VHS woot woot :).... read more

North America » United States » Virginia » Richmond May 20th 2008

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

North America » United States » Virginia » Reston May 20th 2008

Heyhey everyone!! Tomorrow the adventure begins!! I am catching my flight to LA @ 9:34 in the morning, then off to Hong Kong, China and final destination: Manila, Philippines!! I will be updating this blog as I traveling throughout Southeast Asia, so we'll be in touch (= Talk to you soon!! ... read more


We've been back 3 months now and we've answered several of the same questions a few times so thought we'd cover some of them-- What surprised you the most? This one has several answers: 1) not many bugs. There were mosquitoes and flies but I think I expected there to be more beetle-type bugs around. Now, it wasn't rainy season and we were mostly in cities and that may have had some effect but that surprised me. 2) Lots of the blogs we read talked about the overwhelming odors and neither of us noticed that. Yes, it smelled different--more spicy or something--there's lots of cooking on the streets, etc., but we didn't experience the "got off the plane and it hit me" sense. And one of us actually has a decent sense of smell. 3) not ... read more




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