May 14th, 2007 by 
Michael in Basel, Switzerland
Saturday was our final day in Holland so our host friends decided to take us north of Amsterdam to visit a small cheese shop and a clog museum. We packed all our things and the four of us crammed into a mini Daewoo large enough to fix two kegs of Heineken beer. On the way I was pretty excited to see the arena where the national team of Holland plays futbol but I would have to leave seeing a game for the next trip.Going through the cheese room, the tour guide was very impressive as she kept changing languages on the fly to accommodate for all the people. She also reprimanded anyone who tried to come through the door into our showing. She just shooed them off and told them to wait until the next tour, one man kinda seemed insulted but she just carried on with her multilingual lines. read more…
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May 12th, 2007 by Michael in Leiden, Netherlands
Ahhh…so my craving for some travel has been fixed once again. On Wednesday I left with my sister bound for Europe. We both left from our respective homes, me from Greenboro and her from Raleigh where we would rendezvous in Newark, New Jersey. It was a stunning sight seeing the skyline of New York while on approach to the airport but at the same time the absence of the World Trade buildings reminded me of 9/11. Here in New Jersey we had about five hours to kill but as my sister manages our time well, we already had a challenge waiting before us… to find a Post office in the airport. Simple enough you think?? We scoured every corner of the airport asking five different people who worked there for a post office boxes. The answers we got were: go to the continental mail service which really was for employees, read more…
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March 28th, 2007 by Michael in
Its once in your life you get to celebrate your Golden Year. This year it was mine! I was about to embark on a cool trip with my sister to Philadelphia. I’ve never been there that I’ve recalled, but I was probably a baby the last I went through so that really doesn’t count. This trip had been planned weeks in advance but like the norm of the shepherd family, you don’t commit to a trip until the last minute. Being a family that has always flown standby where ever we went, traveling was pretty convenient and spontaneous.Leaving work after one o’clock, I swung by Raleigh to pick my sister up then we started the long journey down the endless black asphalt road of I-95. I think the number 95 actually suggested the speed limit that some follow in the state of Virginia. Knowing that we both were going to read more…
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