Day 23 (July 20, 2008) Sunday Good morning, I have been hesitating to make an entry on my last day as I guess I am in denial that my adventure is over. I started out early from Lewiston, MT (stayed at the famous Yogo Inn which is named after the famous Yogo Sapphire mined exclusively in Central Montana and the only American gem found in the crown jewels of England) and covered the 450 miles home in record time with 75+ mph on Montana roads. The closer I got to Bismarck the more bugs my windshield picked up. Amazing. Now that [View Full Entry]

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Hej Vi er nu ankommet til Yellowstone, og har efter en halv dags koeren rundt fundet en campingplads. Vi haaber dog at finde en bedre campingplads i morgen, da den nuvaerende ikke har andet end et hul i jorden at skide i... det ville vaere ok, hvis der var rindende vand til at vaske haender i. Desuden maa man ikke haelde opvaskevand ud, andre steder end ned i lortehullet...for saa bliver man spist af bjoernene! Saa det er ikke lige det fedeste sted. Vi fandt dessvaerre ud af, at vores telt er noget vaerre l#rt, men ok, saa laenge det hverken [View Full Entry]

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I can't believe I'm here, at this point. After months of planning and dreaming, it's really happening. And I'm so excited and nervous and stressed I think I'm going to explode into a million pieces while doing a happy dance. The Big and Exciting News of the Day: I turned in my 2 weeks notice at work!!!!! I am so excited I can hardly stand it. Oh, how I dreamed of this moment for years.... ahhh. At first my boss didn't believe me. Then he did. Then he smiled and congratulated me. And asked about what I was going to be [View Full Entry]

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We just spent about 6 days with my (Ashley) dad, Nancy (step-mom) and Hunter (half-brother) in Arkansas. It was a great time. We got to go boating, swimming, tubing and fishing on Bull Shoals Lake. The lake was about 40-50 feet above it's normal water level, kind of a shock since California is on the verge of a drought. Staying in Mountain Home was a great way to pause our trip for a little while and relax. We ate great food like Amber Jack fish, Deer burgers, and BBQ chicken. On Sunday we all drove down to Hot Springs National Park [View Full Entry]

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After nearly a month of waiting, I finally got to NYC to visit my girls. My earliest memory of NYC was visiting as a young girl with my parents. I saw some church, got to the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, took photos at the top of the Twin Towers and distinctly remember my mom's fury when realizing that Dad had chosen the wrong subway and taken us to the Bronx. That was the 80s. It wasn't until after I graduated in 2004 that I revisited the big bad apple. For one reason or another, all of my friends have [View Full Entry]

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Hallo allemaal, this is the final call for flight USA_2008.... :-) In Orlando hadden we twee volle dagen... (de aankomst dag niet meegerekend, toen zijn we 's middags nog even snel naar een Outlet geweest . Het was lastig kiezen naar welke pretparken te gaan... De keuze is enorm en we hadden er ook al een aantal gezien in het verleden.... Voor de eerste dag kozen we Seaworld. Altijd ongelooflijk mooie dolfijnen/orca shows, en veel te zien... Dat zat wel goed... De tweede dag was lastiger... De waterparken vielen af vanwege mijn ooronsteking. Disney klinkt altijd toch wat kinderachtig (houden niet [View Full Entry]

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New York is one helluva town. It is on the go 24/7. Masses of people rushing to and from at any hour of the clock. The swarming cabs are thick on the street and rarely does 15 minutes go by without a siren of some sort go screaming past. We arrived after the 7 hour flight at about 4 am but had to put the clock back 5 hours making it still before midnight. Immigration took 1 ½ hours as we had to wait for all the yanks to go through first. A set fee for the cab to anywhere in [View Full Entry]

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My friends and I have always talked about how great it would be to have one of us own a lake cabin. Since I got the opportunity to live and work in Germany I knew I wouldn't be able to buy the lake cabin. :) Once my friends found out I was leaving them for a year we all decided to rent a lake cabin in northern Minnesota. My good friends Claire and Steve took the lead and searched the internet for places. Since we are all just out of college none of us expected much. The place they found was [View Full Entry]

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Arriving in Homer is a spectacular sight to behold and no picture can do it justice. The land mass that projects 5 miles into the Kachemak Bay is called the “Spit,” and Homer is known as “the end of the road.” It is also known as the Halibut Fishing Capital of the World, although there are also a variety of salmon and other fish. Again, we were not in the right place at the time the Chinook and the reds were running. However, we did have success catching Halibut from a charter. We caught 6 fish together and could keep 2 [View Full Entry]

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Hm. Paa tide aa vende nesen hjemover merker jeg. Dagen i dag (mens jeg venter paa ferga) har jeg brukt til aa drikke kaffe i bokhandelen og henge paa den lokale surfesjappa. (Jeg har ikke saa mye foelelse av aa vaere turist lengre. Og saa begynner jeg saa smaatt aa bli lei av soveposen og teltet mitt.... ) Det er trivelig her i Sitka, men ikke saa mye mer aa gjoere enn kajakk og rusle fjellturer. Dessverre finnes det ikke surfbare boelger paa denne tiden av aaret. (Ikke akkurat en overraskelse, det er jo det samme hjemme) Reiser tilbake til Juneau [View Full Entry]

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