Blogs from North America - page 8002

I am leaving for Madrid tomorrow. If you know me, chances are I've spoken to you about how utterly unprepared I am for this trip. I will be out of the country for five weeks. How many outfits do I have? About four. This is not good. Today is shopping day. Needless to say, I feel like I'm caving. Because shopping for Madrid means I'm going to be in Madrid very soon. It's all denial, all of it. And denial is so unnecessary. I don't have much all to say here. There are a lot of things going on in my head (as is painfully obvious by my clunky, rambling title), only a few of which might have to do with leaving. Or, maybe they all have to do with leaving, but my fear is just ... read more

Nous sommes à St-Clément, chez les parents de Mélanie, dans le Bas-du-Fleuve, à 13 jours du départ! Nous en sommes à préparer scrupuleusement un itinéraire de voyage... dans lequel - et c'est maintenant officiel! - les parents à Mélanie ainsi que François (frère de Mélanie) et Sabine (sa copine) - viendront nous rejoindre! Voici donc une partie d'ébauche d'itinéraire (tout de même très officieux car nous voulons nous garder toute liberté une fois là-bas...) - Arrivée à Lima: 12 juillet 07, vers minuit ou 1ham (ça c'est officiel, du moins on le souhaite!!) ; - Direction sud vers le Chili: quelque part en juillet; - Visite sommaire de quelques lieux au Chili...; - Argentine: quelque part en juillet ou août jusqu'aux abords de septembre ou moins ou plus!; - Quelques saucettes en Uruguay ou Paraguay: qui ... read more

So after spending my first 7 months in the West of Canada i've finally made my way over to the East. The East is the political, businessy side of the country. Its where all the culture and old buildings are. My first stop was Toronto. Mumsy and I flew from Calgary to here- (saved a 2 day bus trip :-) We just booked one night in Toronto.. as we wanted to get down to Niagara Falls! Toronto is a really cool city... sorta reminded me of Sydney- so it had comforting feeling. Trornto is the biggest of the Canadian cities and home to the worlds tallest free standing building, so from where ever you were in the city you could see it :-). The next day we were off to Niagara... only a 2 hour ... read more

Our trip saga is almost a weather saga. The first day in Grand Pre , Nova Scotia, it was in the mid 60's and rainy. We went to the public library for some internet work. We then drove to Cape Split, a narrow arm of land into the Bay of Fundy, but by the time we got there it was so foggy you could barely see anything. Still an interesting drive. We ended the day with a walk through the Acadia University campus and gardens and a visit to a local winery. The next day we got up to cool, but potentially only partly cloudy skies. Decided to drive to Freeport on Long Island for a whale watching trip. Weather good on the way, but when we arrived it was cloudy, we were the only ... read more

Day 11 Okay, we’ve made it safely out of North Las Vegas. After missing one turn, we pulled a U-turn and made it on the correct interstate. We crossed the Hoover Dam. Benji’s quote when it came into view: “Dam!” We had to be inspected before crossing. Benji was going to warn the officers that our camper was a mess inside. His thought “It looks like a bomb went off in there.” Bad choice of words, Ben Ben. Luckily, he kept his mouth shut and we passed inspection without incident. Off to Wickenberg! Lunch will happen there and we’ll get some information about the ghost town. I may have to turn this into a Scooby-Doo blog for a day. So we’re in Wickenberg. No sign of this Vulture Mine or whatever it’s called. They do ... read more