Blogs from North America - page 8123

Rachel and I spent the last three weeks in Yosemite Valley after a great Southern Utah tour through Bryce, Capitol Reef, and Zion Natl. Parks. Presently we are in the luxury Ahwanee Hotel poaching as much electricity as we can to recharge cameras, phones, and the confuser. The weather here has been absolutely splitter with bluebird skies and nary a drop of rain. We have been ticking many Yosemite classics averaging 8-10 pitches a day, five days a week. Climbs include Serenity/Sons of Yesterday, East Buttress of Middle Cathedral, E. Butt of El Cap, cragging at the Cookie and Pat & Jacks, the Nutcracker, a day at Glacier Point, Astrobaby (the first three pitches of Astroman) and most recently a one day ascent of Half Dome via the Regular Route. This was a stellar route ... read more

We are off to Whittler to catch the ferry to Valdez. WoW another absolutely awesome drive and now on the Marine Highway cruizin the waterways of Prince William Sound. We could be on a Manly Ferry except that: we are going faster, there are way less people, no cars or buildings in sight and snow capped mountains all around and come down to the shore line. The road to Whittler took us back past the 7 glaciers resort of Alyeska. So we took a detour to check what it looked like on a clear sunny Alaskan morning.... more wow...We would love to spend some more time here but need to drive to get to Whitter by 11.30 to book into the ferry. We stopped at the Jade Factory (which was closed when we were in ... read more

Friday June 1 and we're finally off on the long awaited and highly anticipated trip to the Pacific Northwest. We left work a bit early and headed down to Union Station. From there, we caught the MARC Train, the commuter train that runs from D.C. to Maryland, and made for BWI Airport. We decided to fly from Baltimore instead of D.C. because the tickets were so much cheaper. It's a hassle to get there, although not much moreso than going to Dulles, but when the tickets are more than $200 cheaper each it's worth it. Our flight left BWI just before 8:00 and we chased the sunset to Seattle. We arrived a few minutes early, starting our remarkable run of good luck that would last for the entire trip. For some reason the guy at the ... read more

Geo: 38.8921, -77.0241Alex's thoughts: I think that going to Turkey is going to be a lot of fun. I'm going on a train for the first time. I am going to sleep on the train. I think it's going to be pretty easy to fall asleep on the train because the sleeper car was made to have people sleep on it. I think there will be melons in Turkey. They are supposed to be the best melons. I think they will taste great. I like to eat them cold. I think they will have some different kinds of melons from the ones that we have in America. I hope they have Fruit Roll-ups there. They are delicious.When we get to Turkey we will use buses, trains and airplanes. I know how to say "excuse me" in ... read more

I successfully made it through the first segment of my internship assignment in New York. I spent the 3 weeks collecting and organizing demographic information for Laerdal's major market segments (Healthcare, Pre-Hospital, Professional Education, Government, and National Accounts). I used information from existing marketing plans, databases the company had purchased, previously collected demographic information from other Laerdal departments/employees, and LOTS of Google searches!! I combined all the information into Excel spreadsheets for each market segment to show comparisons across various sources and discrepancies within the existing information. I also created a "bibliography" to provide details and websites for the sources I used (in case Laerdal employees would like to access or cite the same sources in the future) and a PowerPoint presentation summarizing what I had done and th... read more