Blogs from Colorado, United States, North America - page 205

Well I finally did it. I have tickets. Bought them just minutes ago. I am in fact going. My flight itinerary looks like this: **** make sure you click on "see full entry"!!!**** Departure city/ Arrival City -- Departure Time / Arrival Time May 11 Denver/London -- 8:15 PM/ 12:10 PM (next day) June 21 Athens/Cairo -- 12:50 AM/2:45 AM July 19 Cairo/Athens -- 3:45 AM/ 5:45 AM July 19 Athens/London -- 9:20 AM/ 11:20 AM July 19 London/Denver -- 3:45 PM/ 6:25 PM I will have 1 e-ticket the rest will be paper unfortunately. And yes I have some VERY early days. Thats ok I'll just deal with it. And yes on July 19 I wish I were dead. I will be flying for at least 15 hours not including the time zone changes which ... read more

Well the time is quickly coming around to leave this country, this town and I truly cannot wait. I am most nervous about the first few days, getting around London, from the airport to the hostel, but I know that I will survive that just fine. Mostly I just want to get on the airplane and get going. I am sure that I am missing something big and important, but I will figure that out later. I hope that I can keep up with this "blog" regularly and keep everyone up to date. If I can get picture downloaded off of my camera I will get them up here as well, but as of now, this computer at least is giving me fits...not any more, just have to smarter than the machine. I don't have too ... read more

T minus 7 days, and I'm off on my first solo travel adventure! I found this great program (InterExchange) that placed me with a nice family in Madrid. I'm going to live in their home for three months, teaching their children English in exchange for room and board. I feel so excited and scared right now. I'm glad I committed to this adventure before I really thought it through! My Spanish is lousy. I'm on the introverted end of the spectrum, so I know I need to make a concerted effort to interact with people, and I know that will be a challenge with the language barrier. I guess I'm most afraid of linguistic isolation. Hopefully blogging will help me feel connected while I'm gone. I just finished my PhD a few weeks ago, and when ... read more

No I only wish we were. This last e-mail is for anyone who wants a copy of our DVD slide show of our trip. I am currently working on it and it should be really fun to watch. No it’s not going to be boring or anything like that, I’m making it so you can just pop it into you DVD player and go from there. I’m going to make it really fun to watch and hopefully entertaining for everyone. We have lots of pictures (4,350) but they all won’t make it obviously, but all the really good ones will make it. If you want a copy of it mailed to you (no charge of course) just leave a comment after reading this with your name and address or e-mail me at barth.justin@gmail.com We will ... read more

Vail was by far the largest resort with 6,000 sq. acres of ski-able terrain (versus 2,600 sq. acres in most others) with 6 huge bowls and some 26 lifts. You need a road map just to move around the hill. Day One brought us certainly the windiest conditions we have experienced on our trip. Trying to get to the back bowls, we were nearly blown off course by blinding winds of blasting snow. The liftees teased that they were going to charge extra for the natural derma-brasion treatments. The hill was mostly populated with locals wanting to get their skiing in before Presidents’ Day weekend. On the chairlift one local shared that she and her husband purchased a condo as their winter home in the late 70’s for $78,000. Today the condo is worth $1.5 million. ... read more