We took the train out to the border town of Emmerich just like the DB lady in Berlin told us to do only to find out they didn't run trains to the Netherlands! Instead we waited outside the train station for what turned out to be a van that took us to another bus stop in a small Dutch town. From there we made it to a train station well within the ( Read more... )

Today we saw the Van Gogh Museum and the Rijksmuseum with Rembrandt's "The Night Watchman". Both were great but I especially enjoyed the Van Gogh Museum. We walked around the city afterwards in a vain search for cheap food and free refills and wound up at a McDonalds. We stopped off at the hostel and met Tammy and Melissa, two girls from Canada ( Read more... )

In the morning we said goodbye to Tammy and Melissa as they headed out the door to catch their plane to Barcelona. Again they said they had a good time last night and gave us both hugs so I guess I feel better about the way it all went down last night...After breakfast we went to the Dutch Resistance Museum and in the afternoon walked west of ( Read more... )

Our flight out of Amsterdam was pretty easy. As soon as we got to the gate they checked us on and gave us our seat assignments without any trouble. Unfortunately we did have to check the tent along with our bike locks which we had decided to keep. We made it to Philadelphia around 130 eastern and had hoped to make it on a 4 o'clock flight back to ( Read more... )

Check this out! Me and Theo gotta stay at this place...

http://the-tent.com/

I got an A in POS 498 and he accepted my take home final!!!!

http://www.germany-tourism.de/pdf/adfc/eng/route_isar_lake_constance_via_bavarica_tyrolensis_overview.pdfRead more... )

First dream last night was where I was walking down Apache Boulevard and it was completely demolished and torn up by construction. As I walked down I passed Sun Devil Stadium but it was smaller and looked different, like it was made out of wooden bleachers. Then I came up to this huge shopping mall that was located on a lake but it wasn't Tempe ( Read more... )

My last night at Outback was ironically pretty laid back. I had 3 tables right away but by 7:30 the whole place was virtually dead. Unfortunately I was assigned to help clean up the kitchen area which meant waiting until we were almost closed at 10. So from about 8 til 915 or so I did little more than eat bread, steal ice cream and talk to people. ( Read more... )

In 1988 President Ronald Reagan made a trip to West Berlin where he made a bold, defiant speech in which he told the leader of the Soviet Union to "tear down this wall"! Now, most of us have been told that it was Reagan who ended the cold war. This is simply not true. Long before gracefully striding along sunny California beaches saving swimmers ( Read more... )