I hit the beach for 4 hours this morning. Whoops. My go hard or go home attitude is sending me home with a smidge of a sunburn. Just a few select areas. I put my lotion in the mini fridge to chill. Hopefully it will brown nicely and Irsquoll look like all the Italians who are staying here.After my overzealous tanning I went for a walk along the main road trying to get some decent photos f

Hello.Yesterday a few fellow teachers and I went into explore the Confucian Temple in Jiading and then spent the rest of the afternoonevening at the World Expo in Shanghai. It was the most beautiful day I've seen in China so far.Before going into the Confucian Temple we sat down for some lunch right across the street and had a very good conversation with a Chinese Engineer. The conversation swa

There's no way we could top yesterday but we did have a great day We started out by going to a great used bookstore called the Title Wave to get Aunt Jean a gift certificate so she could buy Uncle Dick some large print books. O course we had to buy other books while we were there. We drove down the Turnagain Arm again to ride the tramway to the top of Alyeska Ski Resort. On the way we stopp

It had to happen Someday our tour would have to endhellipand that was February. The determination of when the tour would end was budget based. When the money runs out the tour would end. So we are back in Canada and settled in our new home city of Ottawa. So while the tour around the world has to endhellipour adventure continueshellipjust in a different form The budget we created f

On our way to North Pole a town that celebrates Christmas all year we stopped by the Delta Meat Sausage Plant. We ate samples of reindeer elk and bison. We made our purchases and moved on to the Delta Junction where we saw the last mile marker of the Alcan Highway. We arrived at Santaland Campground home of the World's Tallest Santa on Thursday. The street names are named after Santa

When we left for Tarija my cousin joked that his brother would head to the airport when he saw the plane flying over the town...well it was no joke..he did wait to see the plane before heading over to pick us up. Tarija is a small town..with two plazas and a handful of restaurants that served good Argentinean beef. It was small but in a nice safe way. The first couple of days there we had great

We have driven extra miles the past two days. Guess we are anxious to get to Alaska as we will arrive a day earlier than planned Tok Alaska here we come. The last 128 miles the road from Canada was worst than a road in a third world country. The dips and numerous potholes were unavoidable so we felt as if we were on a roller coaster. Our wildlife sightings for the day were a bald eagle a

THE BASICS Sault Ste Marie to Duluth July 29 to August 3...to Grand Forks ND August 6... We spent a sunny touristfilled Thursday on Mackinac Island pronounced Mackinaw which is possibly the most famous attraction in Michigan. We then drove across the Upper Peninsula which has a rich ironmining history and a busy fishingcanoeinghunting present. We spent a few hours in Marquett

Well we were blessed with another great day. We went to downtown Traverse City because we wanted to see the sights down there and also check out a little place called House of Doggs. They serve all kinds of hotdogs and it sounds kind of funky and fun. Downtown Traverse City is very old and has a lot of shops and restaurants. They do a really good job restoring all of these towns and making the

So today we took a drive along M22 which meanders around beautiful Lake Michigan. It passes through a few little towns and is lined with houses on both sides of the road. There are some spectacular ones and then some that I think we could afford. Either way it was very scenic and beautiful. It is hard to believe that everything freezes up here in the winter. We stopped in the little town of

What a fantastic city We arrived yesterday late afternoon in Saint Louis Missouri a city with very little traffic totally accessible friendly people and streets lined with red brick houses. Still a couple of days out from my next Presidential Library Truman in Independence MO which is outside of Kansas City. But here is what we did see hereWe went out for dinner at John McGurk's Irish

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We missed our flight out today.I am not sure how it happened. We woke up three hours befor flight time. We had a half hour to get moving and a half hour to get to the airport two hours before flight time. Everything seemed to take five minutes more than plannedlonger to get motivated longer at breakfeast then some german guy wanted to ask about lima and talk to us about textiles. Then the tax

Girls maybe topless at the beach but pool side men are required to wear tight fitting James Bond like swimwear. Despite two weeks of warning Jeff thought it was a set up until he arrived at the pool and saw the large sign with a X through a picture of traditional swim trunks. The Harper's kind offers of 2nd hand underwear Cindy's bikini bottoms and even Harrison's 5 years old Speedo was refu

The Great Wall of China is an incredible piece of architecture running the length of 5000 miles and built entirely without modern machinery and can actually be seen from space. It was built more than 2000 years ago. You can read more about it on Wikipedia. I had heard that there is part of it where you can take a cable car up and a slide back down. I was quite disappointed when George told us th

To Miami and the Stadium of many names to see the Marlins beat the Braves

Crazy Day. 400 pound bulls running towards you with only a gate between you and the horns. It was so exciting that Jeff had to be part of it. The bulls charged down the street about 6 times with men on horses directing them away from the spectators. The girls and boys loved it. Jeff was brave and jumped in on the action. He escaped the bulls's horn by climbing up a french balcony with a came

The Hutong area of Beijing represents the old residential district. The houses are hundreds of years old and are designed in a grid pattern with 9 houses three across and three down forming the basis of the grid. Each set of nine houses shares a well. There are very few of these houses left. Although the structures are extremely simple and ten families must share a bathroom yikes they repre

Woke up quite early went out for an English Breakfast and then took a train from Earlsfield to London Gatwick to take another Easyjet flight abroad but this time to Amsterdam.Upon arrival we asked locals to guide us on how to get out of Central Station and literally across the canal and getting run over by millions of cyclists we found our hotel Bellvue Hotel a great 3 star hotel close to ever

We woke up early to drive way out onto Digby Neck to hop into a zodiac going out in the Bay of Fundy in search of whales We found them See video. The tides are amazing 30 feet We also went to Digby home of world famous scallops pronounced skulup. Today was part of their Scallop Festival parade and all. Yes the scallops were deliciousSadly Margaret did not win the Miss S