Blogs from North America - page 9442

Last weekend my two sister's (Angela and Alana) and I (Alicia) took a road trip around the Colorado Rockies. Our plan was to hit some sites that we hadn't been to and to travel some roads we'd never tried. We crammed into the beetle along with a minimum amount of luggage and a large cooler packed with snacks, water, and meals on a Thursday evening to head west on I-70. We arrived in Glenwood Springs at our first hostel. It was an interesting experience. I don't think that Alana will ever want to stay there again, but I didn't think it was too bad. They had over booked and so they offered us 'accommodations' for $7/each. We slept on foam mats in a little space at the top of the stairs. It was hot and noisy ... read more

This was definately the best weekend yet!!! Jolene and Chet (american uni friends) had invited me to there place in upstate New York for their towns annual Harborfest!! Oswego is near Syracuse and right on the edge of Lake Ontario (a huge ass lake that you cant even see the other side!! and no tuffy that dosnt make it the ocean) i took an eight hour bus ride from newton, boston to syracuse new york where i got off and caught another bus to oswego university campus. I had heaps of fun meeting all jo's and chet's friends and drinking lots of beer, cant really say what i got up to as a lot of it is blurry and the rest is better left off the net. so thanks to all the peeps who i met ... read more

Holly and I hosted Dr. Harald Marencic and his wife Angelika for three nights at our home in Cool. We met through The Hospitality Club at www.hospitalityclub.org prior to their Northern California Gold Country visit. Harald is a wildlife biologist and Deputy Secretary with the Common Wadden Sea Secretariat in Wilhelmshaven, Northern Germany. Angelika, a german school teacher with a very british accent, teaches English language and History. We learned about the coastal town of Wilhelmshaven in Northern Germany, the North Sea and the Wadden Islands. Our guests like hiking, biking, camping and; as we do, hosting travelers. They are warm, kind and friendly people, we had dinner together during their second of a three night stay. I played grill master and treated Harald and Angelika to grilled T-bone steaks followed by cheese and wine, we ... read more

Check out our new car! It is a 14-year-old Toyota Corolla and we've decided to name it 'Rufous', after the Rufous Hummingbird, since it is small, red, quick and will hopefully make similar incredible journeys (and no, not because of any kind of strange humming noise coming from the engine - not yet, anyway). Have we gone crazy, you might ask? Perhaps. Trust us to buy our first car ever in a foreign country where they drive on the opposite side of the road and at a point when we are *meant* to be saving our ever-dwindling funds! It will make our travels here a lot easier, though - the Canadian long-distance public transport system leaves a lot to be desired and the cost of renting a car is outrageous (more than $80 a day when ... read more

Hey all, So we are trekkin around at the moment. We crossed Canada, at least 5000k's in 2 and a half days. Fun huh? All this on a Greyhound bus.......... So Canada is a lot like Australia, lots and lots of flat, flat, flat farmland. The biggest difference is the colour. It is all so green out here, green, water and swamp. On the bus we went past a Bison reserve and I saw a herd of wild bison, Bec was asleep. We stayed at a really hippie hostel last night. Groovy man (but how do you say that in French?) We are in Quebec at the moment. All the roads signs and tourist info and everything is in French. In the rest of Canada everything is bilingual - but not in Quebec, only french here. ... read more