North America Travel Blogs - Page 6

Today was the BIG DAY. The organization that I worked for/volunteered at was holding its first community event at USC. 60 kids were being bussed in from 2 schools to participate in an engineering design challenge - building the best hot air balloon! It was tough organizing this, but by some miracle…

   Fall colors line country roads and reflect in the Escanaba River. The red and orange leaves of oaks and maples - and golden yellows of white birch - enliven green forests of pine and cedar. Curtains of faded white smoke from neighbor's furnace fires drift out of colorful woods into b…

Hah. And you thought this was going to begin with me stepping off the airplane into paradise. If you've read any of my other blogs, you should know better. Nay, my friend, you are about to enter my diatribe, or a taste of the bull-pucky that put more than a few grey hairs on my head before even get…

It was almost 7 pm when we rolled into Visalia, and our home.  Worn and tired from three weeks on the road and away from our home, we were happy to be home safe and sound.  Vacations are wonderful and getting away from home from time to time is a must, but nothing beats coming home. …

After only a couple hours of sleep the night before, time to head out for my crazy week of TB meet ups! LOL.  I am traveling back home to Las Vegas to spend a couple days with my "real life friends" (RLFs) and the Vegas TB friends (TBFs) in anticipation of our upcoming trip to Kansas…

Wow, this flight was longer than expected. First, we didn't departure on time and then we had to wait after landing until there was an available gate. We were supposed to arrive at 5:30pm but we did it almost at 8, grrr. But this wasn't the only thing. Just before landing we experienced a not fun a…

Well, my time back to Vegas started with a road trip with Melanie from Los Angeles to Vegas.  We needed to get on the road early as I had a co-worker in town that day we needed to pick up and play tour guide with for a bit.  Telling her I will pick her up at 10am was met with an "ok, but …

Shawn dropped me off at the airport about an hour before my flight -- which is plenty of time for the KCI airport -- has to be the easiest check in/check out airport ever for a major city!  I had a short wait for my flight, and then caught the American Airlines regional jet service back to Aus…

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS ANOTHER DAY OF NO HANGOVER………………..   I had to change my clothes and pack quickly to catch my flight back to VEGAS.  In the same  Erin was telling me my night. The night that I don’t remember, I was mad at myself that I was yelling at Erin tha…

Reindeers???????? My eyes popped out!!! Real Live REINDEERS??? The guide laughed at my apparant shock, and led me to a little shed like place at the back of the office.. And what do I see there? Two reindeers... merrily resting.. I was stunned! And then the guide told me that they were going to…

Back in Las Vegas and we dropped the Princess Melissa off and it was time to take Brett to the Tap House as we promised him wings! It was late....like almost midnight but who cares - I'd eat wings from the Tap House any time of the day or night! LOL  Poor Melanie was pooped...she ate her wings…

Late September and time for a fall road trip. With Drew and Julia both at university, this was the first trip for just Susan and I in a long time. We decided to do a trip along the Eastern Shore--the parts of Virginia and Maryland on the far side of the Chesapeake Bay.  To get there, we first…

The trip from Chicago, Illinois was  fun, met a guy named Bob in my coach car and we ended up talking most of the trip in the lounge car. He was on his way to Boston to do some work as a house renovator. The train was late getting into Toledo, Ohio because of heavy freight traffic on the Norfo…

On Thanksgiving Day we made our way in the early afternoon to Duke Canoe Club for fabulous fish and tropical drinks.  We were able to bypass the long line at the Hale Koa for Thanksgiving Dinner.  We were able to take a few snaps of our last sunset before we departed on Black Fr…

TEAM JOO...HERE WE COME......I have wanted to go to Zion for years. I have been traveling abroad for years and national park trip has been on the back burner.  There are 4 types of USA trips I want to do: NBA, NFL, MLB, and  NCAA football  bowl and stadium  tour;  FOOD NETW…