Senioritis. Oh, and I mean "last day of work before my trip," not "last day of work, period ( Read more... )

So it's been a very busy spring ( Read more... )

I know, a bit late, but there you go.  I had a lovely holiday at home in Wisconsin, although I had to drive back sooner than I would have liked to beat the bad weather system that was moving into Ohio.  We had cold temperatures and quite a lot of snow for a few weeks but now it's warming up rapidly - in the 60s by this weekend! - and raining, so ( Read more... )

I don't remember July happening. Surely I was, you know, alive and stuff. I did spend one weekend in Janesville with the family (which was lovely). Time just seems to fly by ( Read more... )

I'm a friendly sort of person, so when I was in London and having lunch or what have you, I often struck up conversations with strangers.  Two different Londoners, upon ascertaining that I am American, asked me if I'd been to the Grand Canyon.

This just supported my theory, formulated some years ago, that the rest of the world is fascinated by the ( Read more... )

My fifth day in London was a bit harried!  I was meeting up with two different sets of online friends.  The first was some fellow Bryn Mawr alumnae.  One of them lives in London, one was vacationing there with her husband at the same time I was.  We met for tea at the Wolseley, which was lovely.

After an errand to buy some new shoes, I took a wander ( Read more... )

[Note: Yes, I am by now back home in Columbus after my ten day trip of amazingness, but I'll keep posting these daily travelogues until I catch up.  It's much easier to work on my real laptop instead of the 10-inch netbook I took on my trip, which was a great thing but it is harder to do things like write long blog posts]

Friday, May 18th I took a ( Read more... )

Okay so I'm a few days behind in posting about my London trip.  You can understand.  I'll continue to write an entry for each day, I'll just probably be finishing it after I'm back home.


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Wow, today was massive!  I covered a lot of ground.  I didn't plan it, I just started out with an initial destination (the Tower of London) and a few cards from my Walks in London box.

I took the Tube to Tower Hill and did the whole Tower thing.  I have to say I was really impressed with the Tower, not just as a historical site and an artifact, but ( Read more... )

I arrived safely earlier today and am happily and comfortably ensconced at my host's flat.

I'm going to use this journal as a bit of a diary of my trip so this will probably be more detail than you want, but in case you're interested, here goes (and this is also for my grandmother who is not on The Facebook).

My plane out of Columbus was a little ( Read more... )