November 17, 2007: Super Crazy Travel Day

November 16th Wrap Up: We left the apartment in Newark via a taxi cab to Newark-Liberty International Airport at five thirty. The cab was a few minutes late but we were allowing three hours at the airport because it is an international flight and that is what they say to do so we were not …

November 15, 2007: The Last Day Before the Trip

Only one more day left until we leave for England. We have been hard at work trying to finalize our plans. We are not going to make any attempt to go to France or to the continent in general but we do believe that we will be managing to see a little bit of England, …

November 14, 2007: No France for Us

Just in time for us to make travel decisions, the public transportation workers in Paris went out on strike today which means that if we arrived there we would have no means of getting around in the city and might even be trapped at the train station where we arrived. Not a good situation. As …

November 13, 2007: Three Days to Europe!

Dominica and I made an attempt at going to the Chinese restaurant on Commerce Street here in Newark that is directly across the street from us as we have not even tried to eat there yet all of the time that we have lived here. It is impossible to tell when this restaurant is open …