Greetings from Cape Town I finished out the week working with my kids during the days yes they're mine I just LOVE them and their smiley faces There is one nanny who has taken an interest into some of the activities I have been doing with the children so she has been a big help and I hope she will be a key player in education with regards to the feeding of the children. As part of ou

Right then we are back in Thailand then having said goodbye in Vietnam. It took 12 hours to fly from Hanoi via Bangkok to Chiang Mai. We plucked for the slightly more expensive 'Vanilla Place' 900Baht but we are very impressed with it so far and it is definitely worth it i'l explain why a little later....On thursday we simply took a day off which when your away for so long you have got to

So from Atlanta we headed east. After about 5 hours driving we decided to stop. We had heard about a nice campsite by a lake near Columbia so we went searching for it. En route we had a nice little stop off at a beach by another lake but it was so hot that we couldn't sit longer than half an hourWe finally found the campsite and thought we'd got lucky when the office was closed. We went right ah

On Thursday after writing my last blog we got our sleeper train up through Thailand to the ThaiLao border. The journey was fine and we slept most of the way before arriving at the border at 10AM Friday morning. A short train journey across the friendship river and we were in Lao and filling out forms for our visas into the country. While in the queue a British couple our age in front of us hadn

From the rooftop in antigua Casa Cristina of which you have seen pictures you can see 3 volcanoes. These. The one justly named 'Fuego' erupted about 3 months ago killing 1 reporter. View the eruption here. I knew a couple days ago I would get to see no lava. This greatly upset me. I wanted to stand next to lava river and burn up my walking stick like others have. Because of the eruptio

In the afternoon of the 19th July we arrive on Kiwi soil to be greeted by sheer cold a sharp contrast from the humid climate of tropical Cairns. We check into the Base hostel in central Christchurch to begin our Kiwi Experience the next morning and the ever so familiar time of 7.15am. The next morning we depart on our way to a small town named Kaikoura with our first driver named 'Zippy' who inf

Hej alla Det r mitt frsta blogpost p svenska Jag heter Michelle men du kan kalla mig shiro. Jag bor i Rio Rancho New Mexico och jag kommer frn USAn. Jag bor i en litet hus ligger nra en skolan. Vder r ibland varmt och ibland kallt. Det kan bli 36C p sommaren och det kan bli 1C p vintern. Inte mnga vxla vxer hr och det vxla att vxer hr r ful. Jag gde till Rio Rancho 'gymnasi

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We spent the day with AJ shopping and then we drove to Bear Lake in garden City Utah. The raspberry shakes are the best Then we went back to AJ's house and cooked dinner and AJ made us the best cosmos. It was a great day now we are getting packed up and will head to Nevada tomorrow.

31st July to 3rd August 2010 Slow slow here we go...Rest day on the 31st watched TV washed clothes then took a trip out before tea to Cedarwood Drive wow views and a half. Unbelievable drive glad we had the 4x4 just don't look down didn't find the Geocache at the top. Then we eat at a nice Italian called Adriatco on Sheridan Drive.On the 1st of August we went to Buffalo Bill Dam over

4th August 2010 Wild HorsesEasy day today got up and sorted out a couple of extra days in Cody we won't leave here until Sunday now and then we are heading towards BillingsLittle Big Horn via Yellowstone. We've decided not to book anything and just take whatever we can get.We then booked a tour out to the Wild Horses today and White water rafting for tomorrow. We thought we'd go swimming

5th6th7th August 2010 Lily Lake MosquitosOn the 5th we got up early and went White Water rafting for a couple of hours then we went for a car ride out on the Chief Josepth Scenic Highway which peaked at about 8500 ft. Picked up 3 Geocaches on the way.On the 6th we shopped around town KMart hired a bike I went for a cycle up Skyline Drive and walked around scenic Cody shopped.... We al

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

Budapest to ClujNapoca Romania 490KmWell today had it all. Spotted hookers in the layby adds some meaning to the term layby that is not hooker then wanting to give up and go home then an hour later elation riding through Zaleu amid rolling hills and singing ldquoThe Hills are Alighthelliprdquo and then being exposed on the top of a bare hill with cell towers in a lightening storm.