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St. Louis ZooSt. Louis Zoo was just named the best zoo in the U.S., and it's free!!!We decided to go with some friends and had a really good time. The zoo is really big and is well maintained. They create "natural habitats" for the animals to live in, not cages. We spent about 4 hours at the zoo and still did not see everything. More pics to come.... read more

Thurs 12-04 After two days on a train and a plane and spending a night back in the good old upper east side we arrived in Mexico City. Straight away I was struck by the colours, the bright light and the smell of the heat. very welcome relief after the very long winter. Our hostel is in the best location I have ever stayed in. Its right on the main square with a roof terrace looking out across the cathedral. everyone go to Mexico city and go to the mundo joven hostel. Fri 13-04 Changed our plan because all advice seemed to be against travelling north in mexico - instead were going to go along the carribean coast down to Cancun. We met Jesus he was a barrell of laughs- his friend is crazy about ireland. ... read more

TRAVEL MAP Go to underlined link here and check out the my travel url="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=115700030795509477567.00000112245405c23c4e7&hl=en&om=1&z=3&ll=45.706179,-24.785156&spn=76.716665,143.261719&mid=1177881540" target="_blank"Interactive Map!!!!!!!!!!! Below is my Iternerary. Sorry the formatting is not very good. I could not make it any better. () means the dates are variable variable : depends on when departure times are Dates Destination Comments May 17 Leave For London May 18 Sardinia, Italy Have one morning in London before flight to field camp May 19-June 22 Sardinia, Italy This is my last class for my undergraduat... read more

We left San Francisco on Saturday, April 28, heading East to Denver on our 3rd leg of the train trip on the California Zepyhr, which travels over 2400 miles from CA to Chicago (we would make a stop about 1/2 way in Denver). Little did we know what was in store regarding schedules for these last two stretches on the train. But we learned the importance of remaining calm and were grateful we did not have connections to make at the other end. Apparently this train is notoriously late. Despite our on-time departure from Emeryville, CA we frequently had to yield to the freight traffic and then encountered a disabled freight train in eastern California which put us as much as 8 hours behind schedule at one point. The engineers were able to make up ... read more