Blogs from United States, North America - page 5958

Day two…5 States: Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinios We learned that our truck likes to drop down to 2nd gear when going up hills with cruise control. Benji was not too happy about this, thus began his “bad truck” motto as he hit the brakes and acted like he was driving a stick again. On pitstop number 1, we realized that the end caps for our bumper fell out. Our sewage hose could have fallen out too. Don’t worry, Mandie fixed it! And, duct tape makes its first appearance. Corn…lots and lots of corn. It’s International Snood Day! Once we were parked at our campsite, Benji learned that you must unhook safety chains before moving the truck. “Happy” was the dude who checked us in our campsite. He loves his gater! Mandie has a ... read more

Taking Paul's uncle's advice, we stopped at the tourist info center when we got to Arkansas. We picked up a couple of brochures for crystal mining and continued on our way to Memphis. We hadn't planned any stops along the way, but found a place near enough to the highway that we decided to spend a day mining. Here's how it worked: it's a real, active crystal mine that dumps its leavings in a separate area. It's basically mud and dirt that doesn't have any giant crystals in it. They open this area up to the public. Of course you sign a waiver saying that any injuries or death aren't their fault, pay $15 for the right to take home whatever you find in a day's dig, and march out there with rice sacks and ... read more

Well, tonight I'm packing for Florida. I'm off to visit my family, yay! It's been a long time since I've hopped a plane and gone down there, and I'm looking forward to being in heat and sunshine. And the intense air conditioning. It's been a busy couple of days that have left me literally sick and tired. I had an upper GI series of x-rays done, and I didn't take so well to all the barium I had to swallow. So the past two days have been spent at home with me grumpy and moaning and pale as a sheet. Don't think I want to have that done again. I'm feeling ok today, but didn't go to belly dancing lessons. I needed one more day to relax and recover. But hey, that means all the laundry's ... read more

Hallo zusammen!! Wie wir ja in unserem letzten Eintrag geschrieben haben, sind wir am 08.06.07 in San Francisco angekommen. Wir sind von Bangkok nach Hong Kong geflogen und nach 3 Stunden Aufenthalt in Hong Kong dann weiter nach San Francisco - 11 1/2 Stunden Flug :-( und insgesamt 16 Stunden Zeitverschiebung!!! Aber wir sind gesund und munter angekommen! Und das ist ja die Hauptsache, oder?! Am Abend haben wir dann Becki getroffen, die extra aus Cincinnati gekommen ist :-) Es war einfach schoen, sie wiederzusehen (nach 8 Monaten)!! Und wir hatten einfach eine tolle Zeit hier in San Francisco! Das Wetter war grossartig (3 1/2 Tage super blauer Himmel und Sonnenschein), wir haben tolle Sachen gesehen, haben viel gequatscht, lecker gegessen und viel gelacht!!! San Francisco ist eine wunderschoene Stadt! Es ist eine tolle Mischung ... read more

I'm going to start in the middle here and we'll work our way back as we go along. Sound good? Awesome. So, today is more or less a new beginning for me. I'm about 4 weeks or so into my marathon training and really starting to notice some results. For instance. Last Saturday I ran seven miles. Seven miles! Seven! Now, in comparison to the what, 26.2 that I'll have to run in October, yeah, seven is not such a huge number. But, in comparison to the roughly, oh, I don't know... none, that I used to run, seven is Huge! So that's a major change right there. The next big change... pain. Whew. I mean, I've had a messed up knee for some time now and that's no big thing (especially since I actually bought ... read more