http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from North America , United States en-us Thu, 03 Dec 09 20:21:30 +0000 Thu, 03 Dec 09 20:21:30 +0000 Made to Miami about 1200 today. Followed my buddies on Triumph and EZBreezes. They knew an anchorage next to the police station and a little park. We are going into town in an hour or so to go to the Publix and maybe find a bar for a nice big brown ale. Publix is the Ukrops of the south. They are everywhere. I will probably be here in Miami for the next few days. Heat exchanger still leaking a li http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Florida/Miami/blog-457998.html Today we had a late breakfast after the party with all the leftovers. After that we took the metro to Washington Dc downtown. Since today is Thanks Giving Day the City was totally emty and all the shops closed. So we took a walk true the city and went to all the importen places like Capitelhill and the Washington Memoriel and we also went to the Air and Space museum. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/District-of-Columbia/Washington/blog-457988.html After recruiting friends and neighbors to watch the homestead for the duration we departed Tuesday morning Dec 1 09 for our snowbird adventure to Arizona.We have cameras motion sensors telephone triggers alarms etc. And a couple of sheriffrsquos deputies living in the lsquohood. Our 5th wheel rig Uncle Joe was in the driveway for three days before departure. We loaded it up and g http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Oregon/Grants-Pass/blog-457853.html We're here in Chatanooga TN....woohoo....The ride so far has been uneventful but thankfully safe. We headed out a little later than I would have liked today but still made good time. We arrived at the hotel around 5ish...Thanks Jeff We did stop in Roanoke VA which turned out to be a tremendous waste of time and I am currently penning a letter to the city of Roanoke requesting they give me 2 http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Tennessee/Chattanooga/blog-457819.html Nasty night last night. Winds all night about 30 kts over a lot of open water. Kept thinking I was dragging anchor but didn't. Finally got up at 330 and started working on the heat exchanger. Finally got the piece if rubber in place and had to join three hose clamps to clamp it off. Got everything back together at dawn. It still leaks a little but it will hold me until I get at least to Miami tom http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Florida/Fort--Lauderdale/blog-457792.html Get Bad Credit Car Loan Approval.Availing auto loan with bad credit has been made easy as a result of tough competition among the creditors. There are several lenders that offer car loans for people with bad credit. If the lenderrsquos car loan application has been rejected from one lender one doesnrsquot need to be disheartened as there are many other lenders who would more than happily agr http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Nevada/blog-457649.html Nu er der get 2 uger s tnkte at jeg hellere mtte tage mig sammen og f skrevet en update. Ugen fra d.16 november til d. 22 var egentlig bare en almindelig skole uge med skole lektier og trning. Torsdag havde vi besg af en afrikansk hndtrommeslager. Han fortalte om afrikanske trommer og den forskellige lyde de kan lave og hvordan man spiller p dem. Han fortalte ogs om kulturen og historie http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Oregon/Portland/blog-457637.html Started today with our Urban Safari Tour with a crazy insane tour guide. She was dressed in tight leopard skin pants a safari shirt and a safari hat with a huge feather. We all 6 of us 2 Sydneysiders and 2 annoying yanks had to sing before she would start the tour.However it turned out to be a fantastic morning. We were in the back of a decked out ute so we got to go to more areas than the us http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/Alcatraz/blog-457631.html Saturday November 25 2009 PostscriptOverview of Blog 3 Months after the trip... Well itrsquos almost 3 months since my return from the summer 2009 Chicago Illinois to St. Lake City Utah roundtrip drive camping the entire month. Sophie my traveling companion drove a total of 6000 miles driving through 11 states and returning safely back home to Chicago with 3 weeks to unwi http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Illinois/Chicago/blog-457610.html Left the anchor at dawn. Ran with the two boats that I rafted up with in Vero Beach. Nice people. They ran at different speeds than my boat is used to and I think it vibrated a bracket off of my heat exchanger. This caused a leak. I made it to the anchorage which is in a place called Lantanna just south of West Palm Beach. Found the leak and got a piece of rubber to try to clamp it around the heat http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Florida/West-Palm-Beach/Palm-Beach/blog-457577.html Are you sure I need to be there at 8amYes...you are supposed to be here at 759amYikes I don't like having to be at my parttime job at 8am. I normally start at 10 am and I was trying to not have to come in until 9am since I was the 3rd 8am person scheduled.Wasn't I in for a surprise when I called to tell them I was running 20 min late Can I talk to Rosie And the response I got...Rosi http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Illinois/Chicago/blog-457572.html Mark Posting please note that many of the pictures do not correspond to the blog most are from a walk we took yesterdayI need to write something so that Liz does not completely hijack the blog. Unfortunately this will be the third entry in three days so the amount of untold material is limited. Therefore it is perfect timing to fulfill a promise I made a while back to convey our national l http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Wyoming/Jackson-Hole/blog-457548.html I am soooooo tired. After a few false starts last night we finally got on the road around 430am after staying up til 2am. A bittersweet drive away from home and all of the wonderful people there...After I stopped dehydrating myself through my eyes we were on our way through Manhattan the Holland Tunnel and somewhere along 78W in Jersey. We had to stop in Lebanon for some sleep as the sun wasn http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-Jersey/Brigantine/blog-457496.html We headed out of Juneau on the slow boat ferry to Haines. Can I just say this was....by far the best 4 hours in Alaska Party of 5 on the top deck enjoying not only beautiful sunny weather but warm weather delicious margaritas and so much seafood...it was friggin' sweet Haines was totally awesome and I can see why people never leave. It was packed full with writers painters sculpters mus http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Alaska/Haines/blog-457369.html Por tercera vez en el ao fuimos a Miami ahora si a visitar a mis paps y puramente de vacaciones. Aprovechamos el puente del 20 de noviembre que en realidad fue el 16 para no volarnos muchos das de trabajo. En el viaje nos acompa Bertha.El primer da nos fuimos manejando a Orlando en cuanto nos bajamos del avin. Mi pap estaba en Brasil asi que nos fuimos solamente Sandra Bertha mi http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Florida/Miami/blog-457362.html How do you define traveling Some countries or thoughts that may come to mind include Sierra Leone scuba diving off of Belize or perhaps a family vacation to Europe.I partly define traveling by a change in my state of mind where I am transported into such a different environment that I learn to see people ideas cultures languages religious notions and ways of doing things differently. Thi http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Minnesota/Minneapolis/blog-457314.html Atlanta Georgia is the home of CocaCola a typically American consumerdriven way to summarise a place but in this case it's selfevident. We chose Atlanta because of its location as a useful stopover rather than out of any particular desire to go there the skies were grey with the promise of rain and other than being the home of CocaCola and some interesting museums I hadn't heard t http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/South-Carolina/Charleston/blog-457283.html 301109I midten af november havde EF lavet en tur for nogle udvekslingsstudenter i mit omraade. Vi startede med at tage til Mall of America. Vi er fire udvekslingspiger paa min skole saa vi lavede en pigeshoppetur ud af det. Det var vildt hyggeligt indtil det lykkes Marte norsk at miste sin pung.. i USA's stoerste mallSaa jeg loeb rundt i MoA med hende i en time og et kvarter hvorefter v http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Minnesota/St--Paul/blog-457277.html A tip for using my blog site whenever you see a word that is blue and underlined it's a link. Click on it and a new window will open up with more information about that subject. I linked Rochester below as an example.Friday November 27th 2009Rochester NY to Dublin Ireland.So a quick rundown of why Amanda was mucho stressed leading up to the trip this paragraph will borestress you out http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-York/Rochester/blog-457260.html 021009 Det er nu fredag i homecoming ugen. Det har vaeret en lidt anderledes uge da der hver eneste dag har vaeret noget nyt at tage sig til. F.eks. var jeg ude og TP'ing i soendags hvilket betyder at du gaar rundt med enten Senior'erne 12. kl eller Junior'erne 11. kl og terroriserer modstanderne's huse. Man kaster toiletpapir paa traerne stikker plastikgaffel i graesset skriver ting pa http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Minnesota/St--Paul/blog-457257.html