This is my first blog and i would like to write down a few sentences regarding hostels. Hostels are a good approach to travel the world on a budget. From the cheapest to the more grand there is something to accommodate every preference and plan. The important thing regarding
hostels is that tons of university students flock to them because they are cheap and fun so there is all the time lots of student travelers around to party with!
In generally every oth…
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Added by Peter on October 28, 2009 at 3:43pm —
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Okay, so stop rolling your eyes already. I'm being serious here!
If I ask you what you think of when you hear the word
Hooters, I'm betting you don't think of owls. You're thinking of blonde waitresses with admittedly tight outfits on. Hmm. Which one of us has his/her mind in the gutter?
As for me, I think of quite a bit of things. Just considering Hooters makes me just a tad flushed. First, I often go during the summer. It's darn hot outside during an Indiana June or July, and that pla…
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Added by CW Merv on August 2, 2008 at 4:16pm —
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The Flying Nun
So I’m sitting at the gate at Reagan National, minding my own business and trying not to care that the storm on the other side of that window has shut down the airport. (All good stories start with this “minding my own business” gig.) The lady next to me sees me take a break in my book, and starts a conversation.
She turned out to be a very nice person – polished make-up, nicely styled hair, dressed rather decently for an afternoon at the airport. She’s going to Bentonville, Arka…
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Added by Julie Sturgeon on June 9, 2008 at 10:00pm —
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I'm a doctor's son, so I hear all sorts of stories about people passing out when they are injected with this, that, or the other. However, I always sort of assumed that I had better control over my body than all of them. Now, don't get me wrong, I hate getting shots. If hornets/wasps are at the top of my list of fears, needles are certainly next. However, I've had my share of immunizations and I've never been too affected by them. When the needle is gone, so is the pain. Even getting my blood dr…
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Added by CW Merv on June 3, 2008 at 2:44pm —
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Worst part about a vacation, hands down: bringing back gifts. I don’t mean Christmas or birthday gifts (I stock up on those, too). I’m talking about remembrances for the folks who are grabbing the mail for you every day and feeding the dog.
The first few trips it was easy, because you had the endless stock of souvenir shop items to choose from. Unfortunately, I realized in Costa Rica that I’ve exhausted infinity when it comes to teen-age boys. I found a hardwood bracelet for his sister. Serving…
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Added by Julie Sturgeon on May 29, 2008 at 4:18pm —
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When you read the tourist brochures on Costa Rica, they’re telling the truth about the wildlife. My husband got to hold a baby sloth crawling along the ground. We were close enough to monkeys to take up the entire frame in the photo without a zoom lens. I watched leaf-cutter ants straight from the Discovery Channel, I dodged lizards falling from the tree next to the pool. I declined to hold a poison dart tree frog, although a toxic red frog landed on Ron’s rubber boots in the rainforest. I rode…
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Added by Julie Sturgeon on May 25, 2008 at 12:00pm —
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I’m a sucker for private transport in a country. I’d much rather deal
mano a mano with a local driver as he proudly shows me what is important in his world. We can have a customized conversation in a car, as opposed to a crackling microphone that interrupts my little snooze in the back of the bus.
Ah, but then there was Arthur, the gentleman who drove us three hours from Tortuguero to Arenal. Ron used the excuse he couldn’t understand his English, grabbed the back seat and promptly fell…
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Added by Julie Sturgeon on May 24, 2008 at 12:00pm —
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I just returned from what had to be the hottest place I’ve visited on the planet. Not that I can’t take the heat – when they wrote the line “some like it hot,” they were referring to Julie Sturgeon.
What I didn’t like about Costa Rica was my packing choices for this humid, tropical climate. I'll cheerfully pass along my new insights so you can avoid lying naked on a bed, dripping wet, waiting for the fan to speed up:
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Don’t take tight-fitting jean shorts. Tortuguero is a rainforest, fo…
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Added by Julie Sturgeon on May 23, 2008 at 9:30pm —
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OK, what kind of travel agent loses her own suitcase? Not at the airport, like a normal person, but in my own house.
It's bright blue, wheeled, carry-on size but I usually check it because my camera/computer bag already pushes the limits on what they allow in the overhead bins. I keep my suitcases in my walk-in closet, and you can see it the second you walk in. Except now, of course, because it's missing.
I've now been on the hunt for two months, looking in every corner of this 3,000-square-fo…
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Added by Julie Sturgeon on April 27, 2008 at 12:30am —
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So, I was filling out one of those survey things that cycle through e-mail, where someone answers 40 questions about stuff, sends it to you so you can learn random facts about the person, and then you type in your own answers and send it back. If I have the time, I do those things because I find them fairly interesting.
One such question asked about my favorite color. I answered honestly with viridian. I know that some people would roll their eyes and mutter, "why don't you just say red, blue,…
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Added by CW Merv on April 23, 2008 at 7:04pm —
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Okay, so I'm normally in the middle of the spectrum. I don't get really high about stuff, and I'm rarely so far down in the dumps that I can't see the sky. I have moments of each, of course. The time IU beat Duke in the tournament, the first time I ever rode Top Thrill Dragster in Cedar Point, the 24 hour drives south (not so much on the way back north) to Florida on Spring Break, that Giant Receiver catching that pass on his helmet at the Super Bowl so that the Patriots could finally fall, and…
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Added by CW Merv on April 19, 2008 at 3:10pm —
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Not the ones on my face. The ones in my t-shirts. At least that’s the conclusion I’ve come to this week as I continue to trip over my bag, parked near the bedroom door, still loaded with those clothes I took to Florida.
I’ve been home a whole week now. In seven days, I’ve managed to put the dishes hubby left in the sink into the dishwasher. I answered all my emails and voice mails. I downloaded everyone’s camera cards, sorted the photos I wanted to print and sent the order off to Shutterfly. I…
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Added by Julie Sturgeon on April 11, 2008 at 5:34pm —
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So, I've been seeing many online lists of weird dialogues (mostly on Face book) that people overhear in certain places (i.e. New York City, the bus, a parking garage, the mall, etc) and I can kinda relate. Therefore, I figured I'd make a list of some of the odd stuff I've heard down here in Bloomington. I'm sure that most campuses have similarly funny situations, but some of these still make me laugh. So, here's the rundown of the best/most original/funniest:
1. A girl is walking next to me,…
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Added by CW Merv on April 7, 2008 at 8:30pm —
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I love road trips. I love my little iPod converter that lets us turn our radio into a speaker so we can sing/yell Cover of the Rolling Stone or Paradise by the Dashboard Light as we drive down the road.
But when we stopped at a Ramada Limited in Lake City, Florida, around 1 a.m., my friends and I decided to get two rooms because that means two alarm clocks, two showers, two television sets. We noticed right away one of the rooms had a special commode in the bathroom – it enjoyed flushing itself…
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Added by Julie Sturgeon on March 31, 2008 at 10:58am —
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Yep, that’s the title my journalism colleagues have dubbed me at an online community we belong to. I was so flattered they would consider me upbeat, a coach, a role model.
But I mainly feel guilty for having snookered them.
You see, I stumbled onto this posting the same day my husband got exasperated with me and snapped, “Do you have to be such a poop at times?” – only he didn’t say “poop.” He used the more vulgar version, and didn’t realize his cell phone had unmuted him so that suddenly ever…
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Added by Julie Sturgeon on March 26, 2008 at 12:30am —
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So, why is March the best month of the twelve? The weather? Nope. St. Patrick's Day? Nuh uh. School? Wrong.
The basketball tournament has arrived, bringing with it the joys of bracketology. And since IU got butt-raped by the NCAA Selection Committee and set up to fail against the toughest of the #9 seeds followed by a date with UNC (Ur Necrophiliac Coach), it is certainly a good thing that we have the brackets to distract us. I myself am hosting a Campus Pool for people I know here at IU and cu…
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Added by CW Merv on March 18, 2008 at 1:30am —
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Most folks in Indiana know it’s time for spring break because basketball tournament talk cranks up several notches. We usually get one last snow pile we don’t have the mental energy to shovel. Wal-Mart stuffs its end caps with Starburst jelly beans. But me – I know it’s March because this is when I let spam email get under my skin.
Face it, there’s so much weird advertising landing in everyone’s mailboxes these days, it’s no longer funny to talk about male enhancement. We’ve all read the pleas…
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Added by Julie Sturgeon on March 10, 2008 at 9:00pm —
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I live one of those lives where odd, sometimes impossible things happen on a regular basis. Probably no more to me than the next guy, actually, but I’ve learned to keep my eye peeled for them as a source of amusement.
(When you live in Indiana, you look for two things in life: vacations and amusement. Well, and IU basketball, but I’m unbalanced in my devotion to the Cream and Crimson.)
Let me give you an example: My friend of 30+ years and I always go shopping along Michigan Avenue in Chicago…
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Added by Julie Sturgeon on February 25, 2008 at 8:30pm —
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Beginners Guide to Budget Travel and Hostels
Heaven = Hooters
Get Outta Here: The Flying Nun
