http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Michigan/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from North America , United States , Michigan en-us Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:46:17 UTC Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:46:17 UTC Brrrrrrrrr. It's flippen cold here. So this entry is going to suck because it is about a time of suckiness. This suckiness consists of preparing to study abroad. It is a lot of work believe it or not. I find myself filling out an endless amount of forms applying to a plethora of fun things waiting anxiously to see if I got enough aidinto the programthe visa finding cheap airline tickets I http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Michigan/UP/Marquette/blog-351125.html Happy ThanksgivingI'm back in good Ole' US of A. Happy to see family but missing my China friends as well. I hope you have enjoyed reading my blogs. I loved reading your comments. Till my next adventure Zai Jianlt3 Sarah http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Michigan/blog-349735.html Well if you're one of the millions who own one of them gasdrinking pistonclinking airpolluting smokebelching fourwheeled buggies from Detroit City then pay attention. I'm about to sing your song son ... Ford ponos ameriske avtomobilske industrije pravi ameriski avto pa ce gre za hitrost Ford Mustand Shelby ali zmogljivost F150 kompaktnost Focus je tu kompakten ali velikost http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Michigan/Detroit/blog-349631.html Hey guysAfter a long and tiring trip back I am finally home. It has taken me a while to get on and post this entry I apologize. Now I shall give you a summary of what I call Europe's way of saying 'stay here'It started snowing heavily the day before I was to leave Arnhem. Due to delays caused by the weather four hours went by before I was even able to leave the city for Dusseldorf. My flight http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Michigan/blog-349069.html Hola Nuevamente.Espero que todos se encuentren bien En esta ocacion sera un breve mensaje simplemente para saludar a todos y para comentar con ustedes un poco sobre las cosas que han ido pasando por mi mente. Este es el tiempo en el ao en que todo parece juntarse y las muchas tareas por hacer parecen interminables. Es un buen tiempo para meditar sobre lo que hicimos el ao que esta por finaliza http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Michigan/Lansing/blog-346734.html Tears from the bleed that squeezed water from a rockI'm not Jesus. Fooled mule to be lead Unfortunate soul to walk on waterPenetrated and drowned in ashed deep Given time you may crawl againGiven time you will fall again Raped and stoned with pillaging needsRemorse is for the ones who care Anticipated emancipator that is under our skinAsinine gravity lingering of kin Dejected selection you were th http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Michigan/blog-346494.html Today is election day November 4'th 2008. A day that could start the mark of a rebirth of America. It also marks the date that I will start the documentation of our myself and Cortney's trip around the world Our trip is taking us from Ireland to Japan and where ever else we may decide. Today is like any other normal day I woke up when I needed to. I'm doing everything I need to when it's n http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Michigan/blog-341651.html Today the trip physically gets start. In a way it started months ago maybe even longer. I am sitting at the Manistee Airport. Manistee is a town even smaller than Traverse City and it is a bit of a random place to depart from. The terminal is a very new building with comfy couches huge windows free wifi a lovely clear windy fall day the sun is streaming into the waiting area. I'm the http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Michigan/blog-340027.html I remember it well the first day Mirjam and I realized our feelings for eachother. It was in this cold month of October a whole year ago. Through this entire year we struggled with our sometimes wavering patience. But Today... Today is the very day we have looked to and longed for all this time. All the disbelief doubt and disrespect I went through all year was because of my plans for today. http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Michigan/blog-339298.html Hola. Espero que al leer este mensaje todos se encuentren bien. He tenido la oportunidad de conectarme nuevament a esta web y de escribirles un poco mas sobre la experiencia de vivir en esta cultura distante y compartir con ustedes las impresiones que el destino me ha dado.Una de las mas grandes impresiones es como todo cambia en cuestion de horas. Ese fue el caso cuando sali de El Salvador. Al ll http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Michigan/Lansing/blog-338966.html Trevor happened to of tied the knot. I'm not sure if you actually met Myra or not but if you did there would be a death match. I couldn't get an official opinion of her because everything seemed fake and all instances of 'meeting' her seemed of the 'worst of times'. She wasn't feeling well she was tired or she was lounging around letting her kids boss everyone around. Dad even said they were lit http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Michigan/blog-338950.html Home Again We arrived safely at home very early on Wednesday morning. We have tons of laundry sandy are still in some time zone between here and Cairo almost 2000 pictures and many wonderful memories.Thanks for following our blog and look for pictures soon on either Flickr or Shutterfly. We'll let you know.Love to allPatJimMomDadNormKathy http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Michigan/Ann-Arbor/blog-337744.html Hola todos.espero que esten todos muy bien. Habia querido compartir con todos ustedes mi aventura viviendo aqui en Michigan pero no habia encontrado un site que me permitiera subir fotografias y a la vez incluir comentarios.Encontre esta web gracias a una amiga que se encontraba de viaje en Nicaragua y me gusto el sistema de mensajes y decidi utilizarlo.Ahora bien como sabran hace nueve aos que http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Michigan/Lansing/blog-337526.html Our annual baseball and arts roadtrip took us to the city of Detroit. I'd been there once for work and didn't care for it too much. But for the sake of getting another ballpark out of the way I was willing to give the city another chance. The trip also went through Indianapolis IN Windsor ON Lansing MI South Bend IN and Omaha NE. http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Michigan/Detroit/blog-334799.html With only 17 days left until my long awaited trip to Europe. I have understandably grown restless each day goes by even slower than the last as the day of my departure draws nearer. When I woke up today I just couldn't take it any longer I had to leave the house and go somewhere and do something I had only recently bought and installed a GPS Navigation System for my moped which I also intend t http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Michigan/Mackinac-Island/blog-333384.html It was a lovely morning. We ate breakfast in town and then walked on the beach on Lake Michigan and then out on the pier to see the little lighthouse.Even though we felt like we were at the ocean because the lake is so huge you can't see the other side it's much different. It smells clean. The water is clear. There are hardly any waves on a nice day. There's no kelp or other sea debris on t http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Michigan/blog-332297.html I think of Constantine the fighting of others demans before he faces his own. In the end it comes to his suicide lying there bleeding. Looking up and chatting to God I could use a little attention right now.My temper is not perfect but I have little support. I am always angry now since we've aquired Micheal. It's not quite the we effort to support him in the transitions. I see the good and bad http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Michigan/blog-332227.html It's day two of our vacation and after spending our first day here catching up on some much needed sleep we were ready to venture out into our surroundings. Our first stop the mall. LOL. Lar's mom Peggy has been spoiling us rotten from the moment our plane touched down. This morning she treated us to new haircuts and surprise goodies from Bath Bodyworks. I've decided that every great v http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Michigan/Holland/blog-330929.html Miracle Camp and Retreat CenterHappy Birthday HeatherWe finished our project yesterday and three of the couples pulled out which leaves us on this side of the camp and Willie and Sharon on the otherhellipvery weird after having others so close. Clara and Nic left last week to fulfill a family commitment. Everyone else is headed home for at least a month and wersquoll leave Saturday mo http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Michigan/Lawton/blog-330502.html On to Egypt and Jordan via New York marHaba HelloThe big day has almost arrived. Tomorrow we leave on our grand adventure to the Middle East. As of 600PM are bags are all packed. Hmmmm seems to early to be ready and the bags seem a little light. I wonder what we have forgotten. My theory on forgetting something is that there are actually stores in other countries besides the US so I c http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Michigan/blog-329850.html Yesterday I returned home from visiting my sister at her college down in Mt. Pleasant. She wanted to see me before I made my trip over to Europe. The highlight of my visit was visiting the Cider Mill down there it was pretty cool seeing how apple cider is made. The farm that makes the cider had other attractions as well I took as many pictures as I could of the place.All in all it was a very nic http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Michigan/blog-329092.html httpwww.travelblog.orggmapsmap8Dv.htmlToday we traveled from Grand Rapids to Frankenmuth a little Bavarian town approximately an hour and a half to the northeast. It doesn't take long once you enter Frankenmuth to find the town's biggest draw Bronner's Christmas Wonderland The World's Largest Christmas Store. Bronner's is located on 27 acres of meticulously manicured landscaping and http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Michigan/blog-328845.html We are getting ready to travel to Jordan and Egypt. We depart on October 2 2008. We plan on using TravelBlog again and I wanted to make sure you received a notice whenever we make a post. Please send me an email if you see this update.Thanks http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Michigan/blog-328184.html As most of Tuesday 916 was taken up by driving to Detroit we decided to get tickets to visit the museum for Wednesday September 17. We were surprised and very happy to find that with a Verizon phone the audio tour of the museum was free Apparently they have a deal set up with Verizon to allow customers to dial THF 843 3134834098 for nonVerizon and then enter individual item num http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Michigan/Detroit/blog-327703.html One of the neat things about our trip so far is all of the suggestions we have gotten on places to visit. Traverse City is one of those places thanks to my dad and the people he works with. We arrived in Traverse City on Friday September 12 at night. Because it was dark we decided that we would put off the sight seeing until Saturday morning but we did make a quick stop at Pangaea's pizza http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Michigan/Grand-Rapids/blog-327510.html This set of blogs is another Group Vacation. Our 2008 trip was from KC up and around Lake Superior into Canada and then a slight detour to Milwaukee for a few days for the 25th and 105th celebrations for HOG and Harley Davidson. The blogs are broken into sections each being a day in the trip. The first blog of this trip is here Tuesday 26AUG08Our only day that we are in Canada most of the day. http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Michigan/Mackinaw-City/blog-327320.html Miracle Camp and Retreat CenterWhat a beautiful week wersquove had weatherwise and otherwise. The days are warm and sunny and the nights are coolhellipI love autumn. If you want to see this camp upclose and personal and can't visit any time soon please go to their website miraclecamp.com They have excellent pictures of what I'm trying to describe.On our tour we went back to Shipsh http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Michigan/Lawton/blog-327157.html First of all for anybody who was wondering about how my recent 0923 job interview went it was great They said that I will hear back in 3 or 4 days. YayWe headed east on Thursday September 11 from Duluth across the top of Wisconsin and into the Upper Peninsula UP on Highway 2 to the 28. The one thing that we wanted to make sure to do while we were in Wisconsin was get some nice fresh http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Michigan/UP/blog-327089.html This one is out of chronological order you still have Upper Peninsula and Mackinac Island Michigan to come but I wanted to put this one together now. For those of you who don't know I have a thing for round rooms or turrets on houses. Someday it is my plan to have a house that has a super tall turret that I can turn into my library with a huge ladder on wheels that I can wheel around the rou http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Michigan/Mackinac-Island/blog-326729.html Hey everyoneToday I have been working to make my blog accessible from my pocket pc finally I have succeeded I am writing this entry from my pocket pc this way I can pretty much walk a quarter mile to the nearest hotspot and post more photos and entries.Just wanted to keep you guys updatedJon http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Michigan/blog-326727.html