Travel

AAAS: Traveling to Vancouver

Before I tell you what traveling from South Bend to Vancouver was like yesterday, I have to confess that I kept forgetting this was an international trip. All of the normal anxiety that I would have about being prepared to travel internationally was, well, absent because Vancouver is only about 30 miles north of the border.

Thirty Year Itch - The Bold Italic - San Francisco

The artwork on this post is beautiful, and there's something about it that makes me feel really bad about the way that I'm heading into my late 20s. I'm supposed to be out drinking til 2 am? Argh. Midwest. Grumble. Grumble.

Vacation!

Background image taken outside the Main Building, Roses in the Snow.

A snow-covered parking lot filled me with dread as I left the University this evening, but the giant sun sinking to the West reminded me of the day to come. Tomorrow morning, bright and early, I will follow that sun to the West and bask in it's warmth for 6 long, glorious days with Brandon during our much-anticipated vacation.

The Last Frontier

Background photo courtesy Brandon Morrison

Brandon and I traveled for nearly 24 hours to get to Anchorage, Alaska. When we left our house for work & school on Friday morning, we knew we were in for a long day set to arrive in AK at  2:30 am local time. We had no idea how long it was going to be.

Washington, DC!

Background image courtesy sneakerdog's Flickr stream

Visiting DC two weeks ago served as a stern reminder to me that I have lived in the Midwest for nearly 4 years, far too long for a city-girl-wannabe like me. For five days, I felt like a kid in a candy store--good food, fashionable city people, flowering trees, irate taxi drivers, and free museums!

Catching Up

I did a lot of travelling last year--a few trips to Tennessee, Utah, Idaho, the Northeast roadtrip, San Francisco, Louisville, Budapest, Madison, Chicago, St. Louis, Denver, Hawaii. It was a good year for travel. For health, I'll call it a wash, and I'm glad to move on. Brandon started a new job last year, a good one with lots of good people. I'm in a happier place with school. The cats are healthy and mostly sane. The credit cards are paid off (except for that whole Hawaii thing). Fingers cross for 2011.

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Quick and Dirty

Wow--what a summer, so far!

Day 7: Going home...

The drive back to Mishawaka was pretty uneventful. The rain started when we were about an hour from home, and continued throughout the evening. We made one final stop in Elkhart (of unemployment rate fame) for Cracker Barrel...yum!

And that's it--the unexciting culminating post of my spring break roadtrip. I've now been to all 48 lower states (and 1 country outside the US). At this point, plans have changed a bit, and I won't be making it to all 50 states before I turn 25...but I should make it during my 25th year.

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