Blogs from Illinois, United States, North America - page 139

Muchisimas gracias, Alejandro Maya y Antje Muntendam, para los recomendaciones! Por favor, dame tus numeros de correos porque quiero mandate tarjetas postales. ---- Monterrey, Mexico. That is where I will be living for the semester starting monday. I'm excited that I get to study in Mexico, especially because my family has history there. This first blog is mainly to introduce you to what I will be doing. The interesting thing is, I hardly know the answer to that myself! I have already had one study abroad experience (Fall '05 Granada, Spain) and because of this I am many times less anxious, nervous, etc. Meaning, I'm not very well prepared. For example: I haven't started packing yet. I leave in 3 days. I got one thing done, though. I procured an internship in Mexico. I will be ... read more

The Cities we would most like to live: *1. Chicago, IL, USA (still #1) *2. Buenos Aires, Argentina *3. Prague, Czech Republic Places we will not likely return: *1. Egypt (a clear frontrunner for us) *2. For Chris - China (at least Beijing); For Justin - Russia *3. Romania, particularly Bucharest (and don't confuse it with Budapest) Best Food: * Vietnam Best Dining Experience * Argentina Best Beer: * New Zealand, special mention to Montieth's Our biggest regrets: *1. missing Lauren DuRocher graduate from Boston College *2. not bringing a laptop computer with us - would have made this blogging thing much easier, and wi-fi is available nearly everywhere *3. Giving our money to Bank of America because they are the worst company in the world. We ar... read more

Hi all. Well Raeann and I arrived safely back home about a week ago. Pretty smooth trip across MT, ND, MN,WI to get to I-39/74 and home. All in all we are very happy with the trip. Raeann got her first whitewater, we saw AHHlaska +. Dodge averaged over 12 MPG, we put in 10,600 miles and saw many parts of this wonderful blue ball we all live on. People all along the way were friendly and interesting. I now have to triage about 1000 pictures and several video segments! As soon as we returned home we had another (now resolved) flair-up with Dad's health and lost my sister in-laws mom to cancer..... makes one very thankful and appreciative of good friends and family. Leaving you here with a few pics from Glacier. Hope you have ... read more

Vores meget lækre bil er nu afleveret til udlejningsfirmaet. Den har tjent os godt, vi har næsten kørt 3.000 miles (lidt over 5.000 km). Vi er alle enige om at det ville være fedt at have sådan en bil der hjemme. På forunderlig vis lykkedes det os at få pakket alt vores grej ned så det kunne komme ombord på flyveren. Det var ikke en triviel opgave da vi har købt en masse tøj og Cowboyboots. Efter et par timers flyvning lander vi i Chicago som er stinkende varm og med høj luftfugtighed, det er næste ikke til at trække vejret. Vi har på turen været igennem områder hvor det har været meget varmt (40 grader) men luften har været tør, så det har været nemmere at klare end den fugtige luft i Chicago. Vi havde ... read more

I remember having a journal in Australia and I remember writing an entry with the title 'Hello, Good-Bye' reminiscing of the friends and relationships I made travelling. It is amazing how you meet people and become so close and then to leave them behind. My mom always said you will have 2 best friends your whole life; those friends that stay with you no matter what. I guess in my instance and for other travellers it is different because you are constantly meeting people. But there comes a time where you don't want to leave anymore and you don't want to make new friends again, you just want to pause for a just a moment and remain stable for just a moment. At that moment you are safe with people and surroundings you know. In Australia, ... read more