Traveled on to Toad River. One thing I have noticed each small community such as Toad River has their own electricity generator to power the small community. Got to the park early short pull today as the last two days have been in excess of 450 miles and need a little rest. Got settled in had dinner of Hamburger Helper biscuits and baby lima beans prepared by Aleta and Jack. Park has free

Today was work day for everyone. Shelby and I blogged the first part of the day and the Leta and Barbara did the wash and cleaned. That afternoon Shelby and I cooked on the grill for the travel days ahead of us. We grilled two whole chickens a rack of ribs to be eaten on the 4th because you have to have ribs on the 4th pork roast to be made into pulled pork Johnsonville Brats and cheeseb

We have to leave Spokane Creek a day earlier than we wanted to but they were booked for the 4th of July and we are not planning our stops far enough advance to make reservations at any campgrounds. We wanted to stay in the area for another day to visit Deadwood S.D. so after we finally got a cell phone signal in Rapid City we called Sturgis and found a campground that had plenty of space a

Everyone loves Montreal. Especially for EastCoast Canadians it's a city of nearly mythological power to enchant and seduce. Folks head to Montreal and marvel at the metropolis with its unparalleled shopping and dining and entertainment opportunities. When they return to smaller towns they tell great stories about the big city and all of the misadventures possible in a place with a Metro a Ch

This morning we leave for Billings Mt. with a stop in Gillette Wy for fueling. We stopped at a Flying J and do not recomend large Rv's using this as a fuel stop. Fuel island is jammed up to the front of the store where there is also car parking and a backup is required to exit the fuel in an Rv over about 30'. While at the fuel stop Leta thought she saw steel cord showing on both of

This will be a short entry but I wanted to give an update. It's been raining for three days in Beijing. On Friday night I went to see one of my American friend's concerts in Wudaokou and it was pouring probably three inches of rain on the ground. The concert was great though most classic American rock covers. Since I knew Greg I got to sit at the table reserved for the band which was fun and

Still at Toad River but took a road trip today of around 70 80 miles on up the Alcan Highway. We visited Muncho Lake which has an absolutely beautiful blue jade color caused by almost flour fine particles left from the glaciers which are suspended in the water. I don't know if the photos will do it justice. We also traveled on up to Liard Hot Springs and took a dip in the upper most pool. I

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LETA At breakfast this morning Barbara and I were finally able to stop worrying about spilling the beans about Leta's birthday presents that had been packed in our Rv by her children before we left Acworth. Remember the problem with Leta and Shelby's Rv well this morning all of those problems got resolved and we head out for Shelby Mt. knowing that we will probably not ma

Last night we headed out of our hotel an headed out tosome villa or garden or something of the sort that where we were meant to be performing our joint concert with a group called Tempus Floridum. Things seemed to be going ok... Until we got to the address. Certainly didn't look like someplace we should have been giving a concert. Wrong address No. Absolutely the right address. Just turns

Ok quick recap of my time with C.Lowe Nate Dog and Lora from the 4th of July to the 7th.Watched a lot of TV on their huuuuge 47 flat screen played with Nate Dog had some great oneonone time with both C.Lowe and Lora took short bike rides through out the neighborhood found some nice trails and snacked my face off.We went to Kat and Dave's house for a 4th of July cookout. Dave cooked up

So at great risk of repeating the same weekend I had last week I decided to start the weekend the same by going to Peggy's house on Friday. She sistercousin was there she is in middle school and around fourteen. She doesn't speak that much english and I had to really drag the english out of her but it was fun. They are nice good people. Peggy's mom cooked lunch again and I'm afraid that I may

As usual I went over to the train station a day before my departure date just to make sure I could get the train I wanted down to Berlin. It's also a good idea to do this since it can take about 30 minutes waiting in line to get the ticket so now I don't need to rush tomorrow. I should mention that my means of travel todays is Anders' second bike. It is rusty rickey and has a seat much too hi

As I wrote in my paperandpen diary Take heed cashstrapped travellers Quebec City could be a town in France and you don't have to leave Canada to reach it. I thoroughly enjoyed my three nights in the provincial capital of Quebec. It was a picturesque city of cobblestone streets cafes with terraces busy squares and verdant parks. After five weeks in tiny Jonquiere it was wonderful to b

May 23 2010Belgium wasn't actually part of the trip but the bus going to Amsterdam had three stops in the country one in a town near the French border one in Brussels and one in Antwerp. I figured it wouldn't hurt to take a few pictures and say I've been to Belgium because technically I HAVE been to Belgium. Besides who knows when this trip will happen again if it DOES happen again So bec

Yesterday when Val and I came out of Victoria's Restaurant a place that looks like it was a bordello during the gold rush days there was a small blue and white bus right outside. We had planned to go to the Raptor Center and needed to take a taxi because it was outside of downtown Sitka. We asked the driver if the bus went out there and he said No this is the Blue Line. You need the Re

Boarding my first Greyhound bus at 1 pm was an eye opening experience for me. I should have but didn't expect that it would be full of all kinds of weirdos and well... losers. I hate to be so judgmental but it really was a thorough collection of the US's trashiest kinds of people.During my bus ride I observed a lot of oddities and just plain gross behavior and I started to compile some roug

We celebrated Phillipa's birthday properly and went to a health spa. We went all out and got the full package which began with a giant mud bath. All of us sat in a huge bath tub together filled with watery mud. Someone is obviously making alot of money out of this because it literally was watered down mud. It was fun to sit there and splash about and we were silky smooth afterwards. We then shower

Good Morning Class Believe it or not this ldquotriprdquo has been 99 work. Irsquom a teacher at least for another 3 more classes. Irsquove been teaching for over a year now and Irsquove learned a lot. Irsquod like to think I wasnrsquot a bad teacher at least this can be said the kids loved my classes. Although I think Irsquove left most of my TArsquos with clumps of hair mis

We had the worst experience possible on our 2nd overnight train. It was from Nha Trang to Danang and we realised how spoilt we'd been with the previous VIP class train.The cabin wasn't that much smaller but if it was any smaller it would be called a rabbit hutch. At first it was dimly lit with a lamp and although this was quite annoying because we couldn't see it was better than when we finally f

Today started off decent. We all had breakfast together hung out untill afternoonish...After that it got a bit crazy. I went to the hair salon with my cousin who was hosting her 20th birthday today and she wanted to get her hair done. It took about forever Meanwhile I decided to cut my hair short and cutemessywide AKA easy to deal with. Sadly it did not turn into any of what I just mentione