Blogs from North America - page 9487

Oh please dont get me started, my heart's in the center of my chest. It starts with an itch. Everything about home becomes bland and boring. Settling into an mind bogglingly normal routine. Raisin Bran for breakfast, sandwich for lunch, meat and potatoes for supper. Get drunk once a week with the same people you've been getting drunk with once a week since high school. Diarreah once or twice a week. Damn Raisin Bran for being so delicious. I digress. Everything in Regina is Millhouse- the friends, family, the good times- unbeatable. But back to the itch... It's still there and the time has come to start scratching. The plan- Travel within Canada this summer- Winnipeg Folk Fest - July 30 weekend. August 23- leave for Eastern Canadian road trip with shipmates Ian and Darcy. The ... read more

Pacific Rim Monday, June 27 we left Victoria around 1 pm, heading for Pacific Rim National Park, where we planned to camp for seven nights. We made the almost obligatory stop at Coombs to visit Goats on the Roof, but we didn’t do much shopping - we’ll be coming back this way again in a week. The ice cream cones were a bit too much to resist, however. If you love ice cream, this is the place to get it. Dozens of flavors and their single dip cone is enormous enough to feed us both. (Unfortunately we were greedy, though, and we each had our own, for which Roberta paid dearly a bit later that day.) We arrived at our destination about 6 pm, and had our first glimpse of wildlife almost the moment we entered ... read more

As you can probably tell, I'm not in Japan yet. But things are starting to fall into place, so I thought this would be a good time to start. I got my certificate of eligibility from Osaka, so I can mail everything to the Japanese Consulate and get my visa. I also have a housing form to fill out so that Kansai Gaidai knows where to put me. I got a new scholarship from the Warren Foundation, so the money is also finally working out. It was touch and go for a while, believe me! I talked to Zach's (ZachInJapan) mom today. He's still in Mongolia, doing well, and he'll be back in the states on the 30th of July. His mom is such a sweetheart! She told me I can stay with them for a ... read more

I am overloaded with information about New York! My first impressions were as always, completely understated. I mean my impressions are always understated, not like I go to New York all the time and I'm always dissappointed... never mind! Haha. The first thing I noticed was the heat. If I'd paid more attention to anyone or anything about New York weather, I would have known it is so much hotter than UK, but not only that, its got to be one of the hottest places on Earth! Not really, but its very very hot and humid. I'm sweating like crazy! First stop after the depressingly messy JFK airport was the hostel, but that took me ages to find! The plane was a little delayed too, but I got to my hostel, and on the way I ... read more

People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.-St Augustine LINKS Name TRAVEL TIPS June 28, 2005, Tuesday This blog is out of sequence. Since we have had no cell connection or computer access, we have fallen behind a bit. We thought we would update you with some current info, and later backtrack. We arrived yesterday on the Fairweather . It is a spanking new high-speed ferry. : I (Note we traveled at 40 knots, and you never felt it. Bob met a young crewman and soon became friends he took Bob on a tour of the bridge. ... read more