Birmingham Travel Blogs, Travelogues and Travel Journals

Well we are set to go an our 1st official Winter Retreat with the students! Every previous year, there has been a Passion Conference to go to, so we were unable to plan a Winter Retreat. We are all excited to get away for a few days! We decided to take our friend, Blue Van #6. She has been on so many adventures with us! Heather and Rachel drove up later that Saturday after a family event. We made our traditional stop at Chick fil a and Starbucks in Anniston! For some reason, Scott HAS to e…

Our flight took us from Bham to ATL to Gatwick, England. We were very fortunate in finding the best deal EVER on ticket prices!! our plane left the Bham airport at about 2PM....our adventure started right away when we HAD to leave the house, but the certificates for the hotels in Paris and London had not come in the mail yet! If we did not have the orginal certificates, we would not have anywhere to stay! AHHH! Stressful! So, Sue took us to the airport, dropped us off, drove BACK to our house…

I don't care if you are scared to jump out of plane, DO IT!!!!!!!!!!! You will NEVER regret doing it! Its the most adrenaline you will ever feel and also the most peaceful time once the parachute opens

Blogs about places and events in the Tuscaloosa county, AL, where I'm currently residing.

I'm about to start a 4,000+ roadtrip across the USA, starting in Aventura, Florida, and ending up in San Francisco, California! My mom is joining me for the ride in my '94 BMW 325i, which already has about 184K miles! If you'd like to follow my journey, please visit my blog at www.trippinsandra.blogspot.com and leave a comment there, so I know who is 'keeping me company'!

A paean to the USA

So we left Birmingham at 3 AM Monday morning....kinda crazy. Our theme song became that Wallflowers song "Its 3 AM I must be lonley..." There was 11 of us piled into the church's Blue 15 passenger van. Steph took the first shift driving so I stayed awake to talk to her. Me made it to somewhere in Tennesee to stop for breakfast. By then, almost everyone was awake, and Scott wanted Chick fil a...it was foggy and we drove around in circles trying to find the ellusive Chick fil a for an hour, b…

These are the places that I have visited during my employment with my current company

Miles Traveled: 300                                 Roads Traveled: I-485NW, I-85S, I-20W                                 Time on the Road: 5.5 hours    &…

Well, not much to say about Birmingham.  Truthfully, and my apologies to those of you from Birmingham, but I found it, well, boring and kind of gross really.  I think the thing that grossed me out about this city were the roaches.  I live in Florida, lord knows we have roaches here, but even at night, you don't see them littering the sidewalks like I did in Birmingham.  I mean everywhere it was so gross.  It just really turned me off.  Didn't find much good food.…

We left for the airport at about 5:15 AM. Rachel was kind enough to pick us up so we didn't have to park our car at the airport. We got thru security, boarded and off we were to Chicago's Midway airport! Since the time had not changed yet, we took off in the dark. About 30 minutes into the flight, the sun rose over the clouds while we riding above them. I've seen it before when flying, but it was especially beautiful that morning! The upper firmaments were rainbow-hued for a time while the s…

I drove with a friend for two months all around the country when I turned 18. We left with about $35.18.

To two of my favorite people -- Darren:  Happy Birthday, D! Hope 25 treats you well as 24 did, because you deserve all good. I spent my 25th in NYC seeing Millie (yay!) and Dance of the Vampires (ouch)  with Jeff. Do something horrific like that in memory ;) JPK: Dear Lord, you are on BROADWAY!! Happy Opening Night to you! I wish I was there, but I trust that Momma Cath and Bruce will take plenty of photos. I'm sooooo freakin' proud, you have no idea. The very first tim…

So the whole trip started out with difficulty! The rental place that the church rents through said we would have 2 large SUVs, which would''ve been pushing it for room, but that way Scott could drive one and Josh the other. They pick them up and they are some Chrystler mid-size things...we couldn't even get 1/2 the luggage in! So, finally the rental company said they would give us a 3rd SUV free of charge, but that meant I had to drive! Boo! I had bought 2 books to read on the trip! :( We FI…