Illinois, United States

Beetle Invasion At Rock Cut State Park
October 11, 2008 - Rockford, Illinois, United States
  At approximately 1:45PM on Saturday, October 11, 2008- The Asian Lady Beetle made a successful invasion of Rock Cut State Park at Rockford, Illinois. The initial wave saw a well organized army of some ten-thousand beetles attacking the Scamper we were camping in. This initial attack was followed by the main army of over one-hundred-thousand...
Placed by Kent hadley in Travels With Chummy

Travel
September 16, 2008 - Chicago, Illinois, United States
As you know, I’ve found myself in a travel gig. I’ve also gotten married very recently (yay!). And we love to travel. For those of you who aren’t sure what that might mean to my life, here, in this 'short' blog, are the 53 places I have traveled between March 22nd and September 14th: Bangalore, India Chicago Minneapolis Chicago Atlanta...
Placed by Benjie and Rachel in Hemispheres

Chicago
August 25, 2008 - Chicago, Illinois, United States
Well here we are in Chicago, and what a long journey to get here! It seemed a long time since we left home that we finally got here, 35 hours. Amy was being sick for the last 4 hours of the flight to LA but because she has green when we came off the plane they whisked us through customs straight away instead of having to que up for 1 1/2 hours,...
Placed by Anne-maree in America Dream

Photos are posted
July 16, 2008 - Chicago, Illinois, United States
During my summer solo vacay in Québec City and Montréal I managed to take 900+ photos. I have posted about 200 on this travelogue. They can be found in the pictures section. Thanks to those who accompanied me in my travels via this blog, H.
Placed by Aw'some Traveler in Allez, viens! / ah - leh, vee - yen / Come on!

All good things came to an end
July 10, 2008 - Chicago, Illinois, United States
“When you travel, you experience, in a very practical way, the act of rebirth. You confront completely new situations, the day passes more slowly, and on most journeys you don’t even understand the language the people speak. So you are like a child just out of the womb. You begin to attach much more importance to the things around you...
Placed by Aw'some Traveler in Allez, viens! / ah - leh, vee - yen / Come on!