Travel

After leaving Mumbai, I had my first experience on the Indian Railways. The trains were nice, and we traveled in the three tier AC class which means the coach is air conditioned, and there is a place to sleep (3 bunks high). We made it into Agra, and was the two main attractions, the Taj Mahal, and the Agra Fort. Then we traveled by car, because one of Aditya's friends is a travel agent and hooked us up with a driver, to the Capital city of Delhi. the city was pretty happening, and there were lots of temples and parks to see.

I had the opportunity to see India with my friend Aditya, a former classmate from the University of Toledo. His family lives in Mumbai, so I flew in there, and we spent a few days seeing the city. At first I saw the area near where he grew up. Another day we took a bus tour of the city, the next he showed me around his former University and some areas that the tour didn't cover. There was lot to see in do in the city itself.

After my Asheville trip and the warrior dash, I started the longest leg of my summer travel by taking a mega bus to Chicago where I met up with George and Kristin Visser and Anne Fennema (again!). We drove to St Louis and picked up Sarah Dugan and then headed on to Gallup, New Mexico for David Dornbos III and Jesi Hale's wedding. The pictures will tell the story.

After the wedding, I headed on to LA for about ten days, but I couldn't find my camera while I was there so I didn't manage to get any pictures of that part.

I started out my summer travels with a trip down to Asheville, NC. My college friend Tim Langenberg is living and working there, so Anne Fennema and I decided to ride down with him one week, and visit for a while. We saw a lot of the town and surrounding area, and met a lot of his friends. I got some great pictures of our hikes, but never remembered to get pictures with his friends. But, in any case, here are some of the nature pics.

I spent the week of spring break in Ecuador with Sarah and her roomie Ximena. We traveled around the City of Quito and surrounding areas, and even went to the beach where we got totally sunburnt. I'll let the captions tell the story.

Sarah got two free nights at Caesar's Palace in Windsor, Ontario between Christmas and new years. She invited me, her boyfriend John, and her friend Brittany to join her. We picked up Brittany in Detroit, and headed for the border. For some reason, the hosers at the crossing thought we were a pretty suspicious-looking crew, so they stopped us and searched our car. We finally made it out of the penalty box, and got to the hotel. It was a fun few days of gambling and hanging out, and then we headed to Niagara Falls.

I spent August 18th to 24th on a road trip from Huron, OH to Miami, FL with my sister. We I drove through the night on Thursday, and we stayed Friday in South Carolina with Beth. Then headed on to Miami for Sarah to start school.

In the beginning of September, I set out on a long roadtrip from Huron, Ohio to Los Angeles, California. I decided to try my fortune in California. My plan was to ride my motorcycle to Austin, TX where I would sell it, and take a train back to Chicago, IL. There I would meet Annika Krygsman, and continue by car for the next week until we arrived in LA. But, as with all the best experiences in life, things didn't go according to plan.

These are the photos from my Michigan Bicycle tour. The original plan was for Tyler and I to start and end in Toledo making a counter clockwise tour around the Lower Peninsula, but that plan ended up being modified pretty heavily. We started out around noon on Saturday the 10th, and after a little mechanical difficulty, we met up with Nate at the Michigan border late that afternoon. He rode with us the rest of the day, and we camped out in a back yard just outside of Hillsdale.