I always like to take a moment and think about where I've been. Apparently from a couple of PM's I've gotten, so do the readers of this blog. So without further ado, here it is vacation 2013!
Look! I drew you a map! However, It's not very helpful is it...OK, so here's the breakdown
I checked out of work, headed for the airport and:
Boarded a flight in Damamm KSA to Amsterdam
Left Amsterdam for Detroit
Left Detroit for St. Louis
A week later I:
Boarded a flight from St. Louis to Seattle,
got in a chauffeured Escalade and went to the North Cascades Learning Institute where for the next week I learned and practiced expedition and remote medicine. with
Remote Medical International
I headed
back to St. Louis from Seattle,
got in my truck and headed to New Orleans, I stayed in the "Big Easy" for 3 days and had a great time.
Back on the road I headed to Central Florida, my mother lives here and I spent a great couple of weeks with her. While there we headed down to
Everglades City, Florida and took air-boat tours, saw Alligators, Manatee's and the awesomeness that is the everglades.
Then I hopped on a flight from Orlando to Toronto, with a quick stop in filth-a-delphia,
We drove through
Algonquin Provincial Park to Ottowa had a great couple of days in Ottawa and then headed back to Toronto where I boarded a flight for Orlando, once again stopping in "filthy", where I had a couple of beers and a "real Philly cheese-steak" (which apparently either has been greatly improved upon since leaving Philly, or was very poorly made) . Got up the next morning and headed back to St. Louis through Alabama.
3 days later, I boarded a flight to Amsterdam where I had a 7 hour layover that allowed me to explore the city a little bit and then finally boarded another plane back to Dammam, KSA.
So all in all, I drove through 8 US states (Washington, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and Florida) and visited 3 countries (US, Netherlands, Canada) on two different continents (North America and Europe) and I've now driven up and down both coasts of Florida...Pretty cool stuff. It might have gone fast, but I'd say I had a pretty productive vacation. Training, food, drink, friends, family, dogs...Dammit, I'm ready for another vacation!
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| Amsterdam |
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| Amsterdam |
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| Amsterdam |
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| Amsterdam |
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| Florida (off the I-10) |
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| Florida Everglades |
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| Florida Everglades |
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| Alligator in the Everglades |
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| Florida Everglades |
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| Florida Everglades |
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| Northern Washington State |
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| Everglades |
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| Everglades |
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| Alligator in the Everglades |
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| Algonquin Provincial Park (right after I got my 1st Moose!) |
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| New Orleans |
Thank, you , thank you, and so many thanks..... You know I might not go anywhere, these pics are blessings ;) Enjoyed watching it. I am sure you must have had blast over there :).
ReplyDeleteYou are too kind my friend. And I did have a blast, and I will keep the pictures coming, you don't give up on the dream of seeing some of these places with your own eyes. Its a big world out there!
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