Birmingham Travel Blogs

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 h…

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 m…

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

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

traveling along the years

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'!

O.k. so I hit the road.  THe weather was pretty nice (high 50's) and I was able to make pretty good time because there was very little traffic that morning and road conditions were good up Interstate 65.  Making it through Chattanooga was close though over the the Tennessee River.&nbs…

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, y…

Miles Traveled: 300                                 Roads Traveled: I-485NW, I-85S, I-20W        …

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,…

A paean to the USA

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, …

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

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…

The Vulcan is the largest cast iron statue in the world. It was made for the 1904 World's Fair, then got a home on top of a hill looking over Birmingham. He is on top of a tower, and an elevator will take you up to his feet. Also on the hill is a small museum which tells qujite a bit about the Vulc…