Blogs from United States, North America - page 4769

Greetings everyone...... If you lived in south Florida, you can could understand why I'm anxious for our fall to start. In the rest of the US of A, autumn started on 22 September, but you'd never know it here. "Summer" started in June and I can't wait until November for it to end. During the course of some slow days at the shop, I found a 12 day repositioning cruise to Fort Luaderdalefor $399.00 (of course plus fuel surcharge and taxes). Sure, there were a couple drawbacks to the price: 1.....it started in Barcelona, Spain 2.....it was on a Royal Caribbean mega ship but hey, $399 is hard to turn down. So, I booked the trip along with my 2 time transatlantic buddy Dick Burns. I'll fly up to Boston on 27 October (had thought about ... read more

Bonjour tout le monde! Bon je sais, ça fait plus d'un mois que je suis en Floride, et je n'ai pratiquement envoyé aucune photo (sauf pour les privilégiés en fait). Alors, je me suis dit qu'un blog ferait l'affaire, parce que marre des mails groupés et marre de me faire enguirlander parce que mes photos sont trop longues à télécharger. Là vous n'avez plus rien à faire si ce n'est de lire et de jouer avec la souris pour faire descendre le texte! Alors c'est parti pour vous montrer à quoi ressemble l'Amérique! ... read more

Geo: 39.103, -94.583We went to Kansas City for a wedding. Very nice and sentimental jewelry was stolen. Numerous phone calls to the hotel were never returned. :-( It was a beautiful and expensive hotel with some not-so-nice staff members who apparently had sticky fingers. The wedding was beautiful, I drank wayyyyyyyy too much wine, and the drive home was very long and quiet. :-/... read more

Wow. German first, English below... Wie ihr am Titel sehen koennt, will Donika ein bisschen spannender (und nicht nur einfach VIEL) schreiben. Nun gut, die Quantitaet meiner Beitraege muessten sich noch um Einiges bessern. Nachdem wir nun ein paar Tage in Seattle verbracht und die Stadt lieben gelernt haben, haben wir uns ein Auto ausgeliehen. Ein kleines Auto (Chevrolet Aveo) und so dachte ich Narr, es wuerde wenig Sprit verbrauchen, aber in den USA scheint ein Autopilot, Automatikschaltung, Armstuetze ... unabdingbar zu sein und ein Verbrauch von 9l/100km als wenig zu gelten. Egal. Zuerst sind wir Richtung Mt Rainier (ein Vulkan ca. 100km suedoestlich von Seattle) gefahren. Unser erster Tag dort war super. Die meisten Dinge koennten wir nicht sehen, da der Nebel extrem stark war und unsere enorme Wanderung hat sich als fies herausgestellt, es ... read more

Wow, that guy can talk. We got downtown at 8:30 and had to wait 45 minutes in line before the metal detectors. the line was huge. started at the corner of front st and main, then went along the river to roughly pine and front, then back, up main and a right on 2nd st. a lot of people spoke first, local politicians, grass roots organizers and then around 10:30 he came on. the streets were packed. the fire department estimated about 15000 people. you don't really need me to tell you that he's an amazing speaker but hearing it in person is pretty moving. he lamented that he couldn't stay and have a pint at oktoberfest since he is flying back to washington to try and push through the economic rescue plan. a lot of ... read more