One Year Away
In and around World
"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, stepping out of your door". Bilbo, I would have to say it's dangerous business just planning to step out of you door. The amount of stress involved in having a relaxing holiday is crazy! I'm sure being super-organised will pay off in the end...
In the meantime I'm off on a 5-day weekend to take a holiday from planning my holiday (which involves, by the way, 6 weeks travelling the States, a few weeks in Germany and Switzerland, and maybe France, 3 months in Spain, a few months in the UK and then home via Bangkok and Sydney.
Route taken and entries by Real Traveler Flying kiwi
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Hollyweird
Hello.
Wow it's taken me a while to get started, now I don't know where to begin! Auckland was lovely, had lunch with Matt and Paula at the... Continue reading »
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A really deep hole
Arrived in Flagstaff, AZ at like 6am after an overnight train trip from LA. It was fine but I didn't realise how cold the aircon was so I didn't sl... Continue reading »
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Funny-looking trees
I left LA on the evening of the 4th for Palm Springs. On arrival I got a ride with a girl I met on the train into town. Took me a while to catch on... Continue reading »
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Coastlines and protestors
Left LA on the morning of the 7th on the Coast Starlight. This is a pretty famous train trip and it wasn't hard to see why. There is some gorgegous... Continue reading »
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Cali Zephyr and the Windy City
The California Zephyr left Emeryville (San Francisco) on the morning of the 10th. It took 2 1/2 days to get to Chicago! A long trip but pretty stun... Continue reading »
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More of that huge lake (can't be a lake, really)
Arrived late, Roger (kiwi family friend) met me at the train station and it was pretty much time to crash. It was great to arrive to a package with... Continue reading »
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Return to the windy city (sounds like a movie title!)
US rail travel involves a lot of silly back and forth. Anyway I had to go back to Chicago to get my train to Kentucky. I had some time so stashed my p... Continue reading » -
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My sole trip to the "South"
I arrived at Ashland, KY early in the morning. I knew I had a wait on my hands as Maquel had to drop Genaea off at school and then it's quite a dri... Continue reading »
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Cleveland rocks!
For those of you that really want to know everything, I just added an additional paragraph for something I missed out of my Kentucky entry.
S... Continue reading »
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LOADS of water. And lunch in Canada, eh
Left Cleveland early on the 22nd. I had a layover in Buffalo, NY, and the train was also delayed. A little frustrating because apparently I co... Continue reading »
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Be prepared for Red Sox fans, and quacking.
Had to leave Niagara at like 4am, which I wasn't pleased about, but my sweet elderly Italian-American taxi driver was most entertaining so tha... Continue reading »
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There must be a civil war reenactment around the corner
My bus took me into New York City for the third time... this time I actually had to get out onto the streets. I walked like seven blocks in the rai... Continue reading »
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My Amish buggy drivers licence is in the post
The train took me through New York again... and on to Newark Airport, NJ where Grace & Karl picked me up (they used to live next door to us.) W... Continue reading »
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Wandering in Washington
Bev dropped me at Beverly´s (another family friend, thanks ma and da!) in Bethesda MD (which is a suburb of Washington, DC.)
After lunch and... Continue reading »
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Gorgeous great groovy Gotham
Arrived in New York late morning on the 4th, and came quickly to grips with the subway system so that I could get from Penn Station up to the... Continue reading »
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Wrap-up (or, highlights for the lazy)
Dear readers please note: I just wrote this entire thing and then the computer had a spazz and I lost it. My celebratory glass of wine has beco... Continue reading »
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Touching down across the Atlantic
Flight was uneventful but shorter than I had realised and I didn't really get much sleep (felt like a meal or something else arrived every five min... Continue reading »
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The Reeperbahn, the Elbe, and wannabe kiwis
Arrived in Hamburg on the evening of the 14th. Maren (my exchange partner from high school exchange programme and a close friend) met me at the sta... Continue reading »
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Back home to Neckarhausen (Part I)
Uneventful, fast, quiet (both passengers and train - can't get used to that!) trip to Mannheim.
Edith (Maren's mum) met me at the train... Continue reading »
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Hopp Schwiiz!
Arrived in Basel late afternoon and met Astrid (my sister Kathryn's exchange partner), and went back to her apartment which is literally... Continue reading »
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Back to Neckarhausen (Part II)
Arrived back in Mannheim on Sunday evening an hour late due to someone falling or jumping or something on the tracks. Oh joy. The heat wave had arr... Continue reading »
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Wanderings in the city of amour
Arrived at Gare de l'est in the evening. Anna (high school/uni friend currently working in Paris) met me and we went back to her apartment (5... Continue reading »
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Pueblo Inglés bookended by Madrid
Nobody cared who I was or what I was doing - didn't have customs and my passport wasn't even checked! A far cry from NZ or Aussie.
Navigated... Continue reading »
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My home on the beach
I was an au pair in La Vila for around three months! It was amazing, hard to condense into a blog entry actually. For now I'll just put some photos up... Continue reading » -
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Madrid/PI II
My family went on holiday to Greece so I went back to Madrid and to Pueblo Ingles for a second go... will write a summary soon, for now - some photos. Continue reading »
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