http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Nebraska/Omaha/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from North America , United States , Nebraska , Omaha en-us Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:06:20 BST Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:06:20 BST Well I am now back from Chicago. Nothing like taking a road trip with two teenage boys altogether in the back seat. Any way spent Sunday night in Minnesota. Then Travelled to Chicago Ill.Stayed in one of Fred's sister's room. Very nice. Anyway on Wednesday went into Chicago city on Thursday. What a mission took hour and a half but lots to see. We went to the Shedd and saw lots of fish tu http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Nebraska/Omaha/blog-302060.html Hi sorry about the delay I arrived in the US on the 16th June. LA to Dallas and Dallas to Omaha three hours late http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Nebraska/Omaha/blog-297240.html Well...we finally made it back to the great state of Nebraska. We were anxious and happy and sad to be back paradoxially all at the same time. The weather is going to take some getting used to. We have been spoiled by 80 degree heat. But nothing feels better than being back in the presence of our families making up for lost time. Sometimes it feels like we just left last week and now we are b http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Nebraska/Omaha/blog-256376.html Hello everyoneWith the Olympics approaching in China I anticipate more people will be reading this blog. I want to provide some info one last time before I close out this blog.I call this the must read post because it deals with something most travelers may have with them portable electronic devices.In the hotels in China it seemed there was about a 5050 chance that the electrical outlets http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Nebraska/Omaha/blog-252794.html Hey allI flew up north with the Schunks and landed in Kansas City Missouri before finally arriving in Nebraska. Eric is a big fan of Nebraska Huskers and as the result I was introduced closely to the Huskers land. We got along pretty well considering it is off season for college football I can't wait until it is starting again in about eight months.Omaha is a cool chilling town and it i http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Nebraska/Omaha/blog-240838.html Hi allI just wanted to drop a quick line to let everyone know that I'll be leaving for France on January 2nd which is under a week from today. I'm beyond excited at this point. I was really tempted to write this entire entry in French actually but realized it would be quite counter productive. So here's your chance to unsubscribeif you received an email about this post and would like me http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Nebraska/Omaha/blog-230867.html Mom played hooky from work and we drove to Omaha to visit the zoo. For some reason my whole family has a love of zoos. Whenever we're on vacation someplace with a nice zoo we go. Last week I thought to myself You know it'd be nice to go to the Omaha Zoo. I haven't been there for years. The next day Mom said You know I can take a day off of work. I think we should go to the Omaha Zo http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Nebraska/Omaha/blog-204698.html I am home.Since returning I have gotten some emails about where I stayed in Beijing and how to get around so I decided to post some helpful information for future Beijiing travellers.The Shuttle bus pictures are two sides of a brochure that can take you from the airport to the cool part of Beijing near Tiananmen square and stuff.The GOTOhotel pictures are the brochure of the hotel I stayed at.. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Nebraska/Omaha/blog-204441.html My 250 flight from Philly took off at about 5pm. In a thunderstorm. I blatantly missed my connecting flight in Chicago scheduled for 5pm CT and had to switch and lay over for three hours. Had to call my client from the airport while charging my cell phone and Ipod and ended our hearing prep by saying I have a few more things to talk about but my plane leaves in five minutes so I need to g http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Nebraska/Omaha/blog-190788.html Since it's the end of July I wanted to publish a quick update with the goingson of the past few weeks.After Jackson Philippe and I spent a few days back in Boulder preparing for him to leave. Coordinating with his other climbing partner Brad McMillon running a million small errands packing... all the while enjoying the excellent company of old and new friends in Boulder.When I dropped Phil http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Nebraska/Omaha/blog-187596.html Ni hao Chinese for helloWell here is the new location of my travel blog to China. I will be leaving next week for almost 7 weeks in China primarily in Dalian and Beijing with a few little stops along the way. I am going to keep this post short so I can see how this looks and if you want to subscribe to my blog then you will get updates whenever I add a post. Or if you don't want to s http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Nebraska/Omaha/blog-176164.html