(This entry was pulled from my 2003 travel journal.) There was a GIGANTIC mouse in my bed about one hour ago! How gross is that?! I would have been in bed and writing a long, long time ago except that as I was climbing into bed, I lifted my pillows […]
(This entry was pulled from my 2003 travel journal.) Whew again! Well, today was a fun little adventure for sure! We went this morning to an auction house in Bedford where they were selling all sorts of furniture, bikes, vases, cars, plants and even eggs. Once we got back, we […]
(This entry was pulled from my 2003 travel journal.) Slept forever I did… Trying to get on London time is harder than I thought! Today, Jacob, Loralea and I are going to Milton Keynes (another English town) to show me around… I don’t think I’m going to venture very far […]
(This entry was pulled from my 2003 travel journal.) Whew! I’m not going to write long because I’m exhausted… but I had to write to let me know that today is over! 13 days left in London. Today we went and took Jacob to the park and we went for […]
(This entry was pulled from a 2003 travel journal that I wrote by hand.) Well, I made it through my flight, the baggage claims and customs and even found the bus station and boarded my bus to Milton Keynes. WOO! The number one point I need to make is that […]
(This entry was pulled from a 2003 travel journal that I wrote by hand.) We are in the air now! Made it up okay. I could see the city so clearly and all of the lights were twinkling so beautifully. The movie they are showing is Bruce Almighty. I never […]
(This entry was pulled from a 2003 travel journal that I wrote by hand.) At the airport! 15 minutes to boarding… I’m sitting here a little nervous and a lot sad 🙁 I didn’t realize leaving home for weeks was this hard… funny enough, my sadness was quickly replaced by […]
(This post is part of a series that I am writing on my 1999 experience in Yamasa, Dominican Republic. I had gone there with a group of students to live with host families. While there, we visited schools, delivered care packages and saw wells that we had funded. It was […]