http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/U-District/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from North America , United States , Washington , Seattle , U-District en-us Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:20:36 +0000 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:20:36 +0000 I watched last night's Colbert Report as he made jokes about www.conservapedia.com and the Conservapedia bible translation project. Visiting the site to add my own conservative retranslation of the Bible I found it blocked from accepting new contributors. Who knows if this is related to Colbert's challenge to viewers to write me into the Bible or if it's just regular policy at this heavily http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/U-District/blog-443415.html Whoa. Here I am in August 2009 and the last 3 years have burned up like a flame. I......left for my Southeast Asia trip around this time in 2006....saw a whole other world and became a whole other person....ended up in India with Chelly by January of 2007....took her home to Kenya....was completely renewed and remade by my experiences in East Africa....asked her Father if I could ask her to marr http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/U-District/blog-431734.html Moses Lake WA to SeattleFinal day of traveling was only half dayWe visited Blue Heron Park in Moses Lake with the hounds. The landscape is desertlike but on a nice manmade lake. I was surprised that eastern Washington state is so dry We drove through midWashington crossed the Columbia River stopped for pics of the view and then drove past many farms and field of hay onions wheat pota http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/U-District/blog-415169.html I feel compelled to send this blog entry again after having recently watched an excellent yet disturbing Bill Moyers program connecting the dots between Wall Street and the for profit health insurance industry. I implore you to watch this 1 hour video which will without a doubt convince you that the blood sucking leeches of private health insurance need to be excised from health care deliver http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/U-District/blog-406586.html Well one important thing to realize when we go to China some of our usual websites YouTube will be blocked and inaccessible...hence the move from Wordpress to Travelblog a participant currently in the program let us know it's been blocked for awhile there. Hotmail apparently has problems also so if you email me please do so at stacinoellegmail.com. Martin's email is phearmartgmail.com. T http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/U-District/blog-405630.html Seattle is huge city with several loving destinations which attracts more visitors. This city is very largest which is located in the united states of Washington. This city is also home of many arts parks and many large business headquarters like Microsoft space needle and amazon.com also. Besides all these a lot of attraction landmarks are there which are most likely by visitors. In these vis http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/U-District/blog-399897.html today i woke up got some coffee then dropped off my bike at the shop next door i rode a little too hard the day before and broke a spoke in my bike boo. around noon i had to go and pick up my mom from the seatac airport and then we headed into the city. my mom really wanted to see beefy men throwing big fish around and i wanted to see some local music so we headed to pikes place. we enjoyed s http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/U-District/blog-392613.html i left the aussies last night and drove to seattle to meet up with bridget for her birthday. we met up at a seedy bar called redwood in capitol hill i felt right at home. this morning bridgey and i went on a bike ride to get coffee and breakfast. then ryan met up we made some cookies and went on a ride around seattle. before we made it to golden gardens beach bridge got a flat luckily one of h http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/U-District/blog-392280.html And so begins my travel blog. I haven't left yet but tonight after Bumbershoot is when I have to finally completely begin to pack everything up and prepare to leave.I need you so much closerSo come on come onDeath Cab was as always beautiful at Bumbershoot. Also lonely. Once again no one to make out with eh No one really at all this time after Nico had to go handle some drama. I feel like http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/U-District/blog-318842.html And the medal winners areGOLD Sony VAIO VGNTZ340 rosMy bestever impulse purchase for an accidental reason. I had no idea how helpful the builtin webcam would be but free ooVoo video calls home were a lifeline for LG and her parents and thereby also for me.Plus the everyotherday video calls provided a neat justification for me to have the laptop and WLAN wireless internet in the fi http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/U-District/blog-314685.html The Nintendo DS Lite appears to be the only one of my many rechargeable gadgets whose charger is NOT dualvoltage. This means a simple plug adapter won't cut it... a stepdown transformer is necessary to prevent DS fryage. Stepdown transformers are almost literally bricks to carry around. They suck. And for one applianceSome posters in online fora say that buying the European adapter from Ni http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/U-District/blog-301521.html Updates to the tool report Guitar Hero On Tour for Nintendo DS Nintendo DS borrowed BUILT NY neoprene Electric Pocket 8 stripe for camera BUILT NY neoprene charger caddy stripe Bunch of lightweight shirts a cardigan Ziploc bagsStill considering acquisition of Eagle Creek packing cubes. Still developing toiletries plan.Hey cool Hmm is that tools I'm buying for trip or http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/U-District/blog-299805.html After a horrible exam at the Lasik guy up in Seattle they mistook me for another person once asked me why I wanted to maybe get lasik twice already got lasik suckers and tried to get me too early for my eye dilation I came to really appreciate Dr. Assilrsquos office in LA. What would have taken them 10mins at Assilrsquos took a good 2 hours at the place in Seattle. Out of that 2 hours I http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/U-District/blog-299685.html In ten days I embark on my second epic tour of Europe Deutschland Czechia 500 meters' worth of France and perhaps 45 minutes of Austria.Three years ago I visited an old friend and made several new friends. Now my 8yearold goddaughter and I will connect with all those oldnew friends and will meet a high school classmate of my mother's as well. My friend's kids are older so it'll be gre http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/U-District/blog-298537.html Oh que agotador...Comienza el da y es hora de volver a ponerse en marcha despedir a los viejos aventureros y encontrarnos con algn que otro ldquonuevo locordquohellipdesayunamos en el caf al que hemos ido durante los ltimos das y como despedida engullimos huevos bacon y tostadas todo cubierto de una espesa capa de mantequilla grasienta la misma de la que se deben alimentar las bal http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/U-District/blog-298262.html AndrewAnd thus we arrived in Washington which is distinctly NOT Idaho and distinctly MUCH better. I was happy again to say the least.Anyway Washington state laws on hitch hiking are apparently very specific because every on ramp had a sign near the entrance that said Freeway Entrance and some would even have signs which read pedestrians hitchhikers and bicycles prohibited. We decided http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/U-District/blog-296744.html No I don't really hate USA just all those tee shirts that say I love USA or I love NYC. Anyway it's been ages since the last update and this isn't going to be much of an update either. Just to say that I'm now in the USA and about to finish a 16000km 10000ml trip by train and bus then returning to UK this weekend. I'll catch up with all the stories of the NZUSA parts of the trip onc http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/U-District/blog-293982.html About one month and counting downStill in Seattle USA.Counting down the days until my first trip to Europe. One month and counting. This blog will be updated constantly to share my European travel experiences with friends and family. Please comment when you can. All comments will be appreciated http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/U-District/blog-292280.html After spending nearly 4 months in Argentina I'm back in Seattle. It's good to be home but it was hard to leave. I made some really good friends during my stay learned a ton of Spanish and took my tango to a new level. Here are a few pictures of my last few days in Bs.As. and of my first few days at home. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/U-District/blog-281254.html Tim Everything is sweeter when you are relaxed you taste the air you breathe you hear the words clearly of the music you are listening too and conversations are easier to hold. Well that is how I feel today. We have been here for 3 nights and spent 3 days here in Seattle. I have not gone crazy on you so dont worry This place is just amazing yeah tall buildings are all very well and nice enoug http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/U-District/blog-277612.html