Monday, September 17, 2007
And we're off!
After 20 hours in the Dublin airport, we are finally sitting on the plane hopefully headed out soon. Mom Ross we'll call you from the Newark airport.
Sunday, September 16, 2007
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!
Happy Birthday Mom Myers!! =) I hope you have a wonderful day and get some time to do what you want to do!
Love you tons,
Dusty
Love you tons,
Dusty
Free Roamer
Sleeping in an airport is not comfortable! I have all together given up. Not to mention staying up now will help me get back to a normal Oregon schedule, or atleast that's what I'm telling myself.
Our trip is wrapping up, and trust me being home, in my own bed, with my own car, is going to be amazing! But as I sit here watching Sam attempt to sleep comfortably on 3 hard chairs and a scarf, listening to Elton John's 'The One'. My mind can't help but think about all the funny, ironic, and small things we have experienced and have overcome, that will change our lives in ways we will never imagine. It's another stepping stone we have successfully crossed in life, with the love, care, and full support of all the people in our lives that love and care about us.
The world has just gotten a little smaller, everything we aspire for seems to be in grasp, and if even just for a split second; we feel we own the world, and it feels amazing! Although, sadly I know it will be short lived, no matter how much we fight. For home brings all the great things we are familiar with, but it also brings back the responsibilitys of life. Bills, roomates, school, work... These and all the other stresses of life we are all too familiar with. But out of everything I have learned this trip, the biggest challenge I extended to you all is to put away your calendars, take off your watch, and enjoy a day on your own timeline every now and then. The world won't end, life will wait. It's amazing how everything comes into perspective when you let life's fears stop controlling you and you start mastering your own life!
Our trip is wrapping up, and trust me being home, in my own bed, with my own car, is going to be amazing! But as I sit here watching Sam attempt to sleep comfortably on 3 hard chairs and a scarf, listening to Elton John's 'The One'. My mind can't help but think about all the funny, ironic, and small things we have experienced and have overcome, that will change our lives in ways we will never imagine. It's another stepping stone we have successfully crossed in life, with the love, care, and full support of all the people in our lives that love and care about us.
The world has just gotten a little smaller, everything we aspire for seems to be in grasp, and if even just for a split second; we feel we own the world, and it feels amazing! Although, sadly I know it will be short lived, no matter how much we fight. For home brings all the great things we are familiar with, but it also brings back the responsibilitys of life. Bills, roomates, school, work... These and all the other stresses of life we are all too familiar with. But out of everything I have learned this trip, the biggest challenge I extended to you all is to put away your calendars, take off your watch, and enjoy a day on your own timeline every now and then. The world won't end, life will wait. It's amazing how everything comes into perspective when you let life's fears stop controlling you and you start mastering your own life!
130 euros later...
Okay, we made it through the night, but what a night it was! I will spare everyone the hairy details but basically, by yet another miracle, dusty waited in line last night for over 2 hours and ended up securing the second to last room for the night in all of Dublin and surrounding areas. I'm not even exagerating, he said the lady called over 80 places while he stood there. The lady that found the room for us called around 80 hotels before she found two rooms at the same bed and breakfast. Dusty took one and the guy next to him took the last.
It was an ordeal to get out to Palmerstown but we did and the room we stayed in is a whole other soap opera in itself. we made the best of a bad situation though and reveled in the hot shower we got and the cable tv. We ignored the couple screaming at each other next door, the strong aroma of cigarette smoke and the fact that we thouht we were getting a double bed room but instead got a one twin bed room... To name a few. The whole situation was so ridiculous that at one point I couldn't stop laughing.
Currently, we are sitting at the airport and we've decided to check our bags really early, go waste some time in town, and then, come back to the airport and be airport bums for the night. We figure we'll off set the cost of our lodging last night and crash here since we have to be ready to check in at 730 anyway. We're now in the waiting game and the wasting time game too. Ha. I think we are both ready to come home. See you soon!
P.s. You should see Dublin today! The city is absolute chaos! this afternoon is the rugby championship and the streets are swarmed with fans wearing red and white (cork) and green and yellow (kerry). It's madness. People are drinking in the streets, wandering gangs of fans are singing drunken team songs, flags are waving- all amongst a horrid rain storm and torential winds. Dusty and I aren't so sure we want to go back into town but we might have to just to save our sanity before our very long next 48 hours.
It was an ordeal to get out to Palmerstown but we did and the room we stayed in is a whole other soap opera in itself. we made the best of a bad situation though and reveled in the hot shower we got and the cable tv. We ignored the couple screaming at each other next door, the strong aroma of cigarette smoke and the fact that we thouht we were getting a double bed room but instead got a one twin bed room... To name a few. The whole situation was so ridiculous that at one point I couldn't stop laughing.
Currently, we are sitting at the airport and we've decided to check our bags really early, go waste some time in town, and then, come back to the airport and be airport bums for the night. We figure we'll off set the cost of our lodging last night and crash here since we have to be ready to check in at 730 anyway. We're now in the waiting game and the wasting time game too. Ha. I think we are both ready to come home. See you soon!
P.s. You should see Dublin today! The city is absolute chaos! this afternoon is the rugby championship and the streets are swarmed with fans wearing red and white (cork) and green and yellow (kerry). It's madness. People are drinking in the streets, wandering gangs of fans are singing drunken team songs, flags are waving- all amongst a horrid rain storm and torential winds. Dusty and I aren't so sure we want to go back into town but we might have to just to save our sanity before our very long next 48 hours.
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Minor road bump
Samantha and I recently arrived in Dublin, and thanks to the national rugby championships we have been unable to find ANY place to stay the night. We are on a bus for the airport as I write to see about changing our flight to tomorrow morn. We were told the only room avaliable was this morn and went for 300 euro. Like I said we are headed to the airport to get some more info and will more than likely leave the city to find a hostel.
No need to be concerned, just a minor road bump. We will keep you updated! We have allot of exciting things to tell you that happened today. Stay tuned!! =)
Sam says I should post because you all will worry, don't prove her right... Haha
No need to be concerned, just a minor road bump. We will keep you updated! We have allot of exciting things to tell you that happened today. Stay tuned!! =)
Sam says I should post because you all will worry, don't prove her right... Haha
we're golden
I agree with dusty. This trip has had so many god interventions it's crazy. Another example that dusty was too tired to write about last night was our miracle bus. We had been out having so much fun yesterday that we stopped paying close attention to the bus schedules. Our last stop was the rope bridge and after crossing, we started the long trek back to where the bus stop was SUPPOSED to be, but to our shock, there was none. So with nothing better to do than hike to town, we headed down a random dirt path with our fingers crossed that we could catch a bus there. When we arrived-hallelujah- there was a stop. Literally one minute later, a bus pulls up and the driver informs us she is the last bus of the night! We had just made it. I think we were both shocked and relieved that God had created yet another miracle for us. This entire trip has been such a learning experience for me. I've been stretched and pulled and stressed and it's all taught me how easy it is to just give it all to God and whatever happens- happens! And it's usually exactly what you wanted in the first place.
Right now, dusty and I are on the train- ooo! train for the first time!- and it's awesome! There's so much room, so much more peace and quiet, so much less twisty turny pukey road. It's a bit more expensive but we figure for our last travel day, why not go in luxury? Haha. At this point, even small things have become luxuries: hot showers, a quiet train ride, a big dry towel, a big glass of diet coke with lots of ice- oh ice, how I miss you- or taking your shoes off after walking all day! I'm ready to come home and take a hot shower in my huge bathroom that I could do cartwheels in if I wanted and not have to worry about who is waiting to use the shower after me or how much time I have until the bus comes or exactly how many germs are crawling on me after i've been in these same clothes for five days in a row.
Tonight dusty and I are going to try to go on another pub crawl, this time literary, and then tomorrow we'll bum around town, maybe pick up a few souvenirs before heading home on Monday. Wow, home aleady? Alright, I suppose that's okay.:)
Right now, dusty and I are on the train- ooo! train for the first time!- and it's awesome! There's so much room, so much more peace and quiet, so much less twisty turny pukey road. It's a bit more expensive but we figure for our last travel day, why not go in luxury? Haha. At this point, even small things have become luxuries: hot showers, a quiet train ride, a big dry towel, a big glass of diet coke with lots of ice- oh ice, how I miss you- or taking your shoes off after walking all day! I'm ready to come home and take a hot shower in my huge bathroom that I could do cartwheels in if I wanted and not have to worry about who is waiting to use the shower after me or how much time I have until the bus comes or exactly how many germs are crawling on me after i've been in these same clothes for five days in a row.
Tonight dusty and I are going to try to go on another pub crawl, this time literary, and then tomorrow we'll bum around town, maybe pick up a few souvenirs before heading home on Monday. Wow, home aleady? Alright, I suppose that's okay.:)
Friday, September 14, 2007
The day of 7 busses
OK, although it's almost midnight here, I realize how important it is that I update so you all don't think we are lying in a ditch somewhere dead since it's been 2 whole days since we have written. I know! So unlike us you say.
We are currently in northern Ireland staying in a town called Portstewart. It's a somewhat small, quiet beach town with a fantastic view of the sea. The only downfall is that all the currency is in pounds, and the conversion rate to the dollar is 2:1 so things are getting abit spendy fast. But on the same token this town has also been a Godsend. When we got here yesterday we had no working internet on my phone and we were unable to find a map of the town. Unable to contact a hostel, we figured we would find a bed & breakfast and stay one night and move on. After guessing which bus stop to get off at, we headed into the unknown looking for the B&B's we had passed along the way. We decided on one to head to first. When we arrived (carrying our packs and all) we asked about an avaliable room and the price. The guy told us he had a room and the price was 55 pounds a night (110 dollars). After telling him that was a little high for us, Samantha asked if he knew of any hostles around the area. He pointed down the street 2 houses down and said "that's one right there,the only one in town." Samantha and I both sighed with relief. When we walked in we rang for the hostle keeper, a tall man walked out from a back room and introduced himself and "you must be Dusty and Samantha?" Both of us shocked, we said yes and asked how he knew our names. He told us that the hostle I had tried to book in Portrush was a sister hostle of his and they had passed on my request to him, and he had booked us and was just awaiting our arrival.
This irony continues for the whole time we have been here. We visited Giants Causeway, and Carrick-a-reed rope bridge and every place God has shown us that he is our best travel companion. I wish I had enough energy to share it all tonight, but sadly I'm just praying this makes sense! =)
We are leaving in the morning for Dublin. I think we are going to try the train, but we'll see.
Praise our Lord for He is amazing!!
We are currently in northern Ireland staying in a town called Portstewart. It's a somewhat small, quiet beach town with a fantastic view of the sea. The only downfall is that all the currency is in pounds, and the conversion rate to the dollar is 2:1 so things are getting abit spendy fast. But on the same token this town has also been a Godsend. When we got here yesterday we had no working internet on my phone and we were unable to find a map of the town. Unable to contact a hostel, we figured we would find a bed & breakfast and stay one night and move on. After guessing which bus stop to get off at, we headed into the unknown looking for the B&B's we had passed along the way. We decided on one to head to first. When we arrived (carrying our packs and all) we asked about an avaliable room and the price. The guy told us he had a room and the price was 55 pounds a night (110 dollars). After telling him that was a little high for us, Samantha asked if he knew of any hostles around the area. He pointed down the street 2 houses down and said "that's one right there,the only one in town." Samantha and I both sighed with relief. When we walked in we rang for the hostle keeper, a tall man walked out from a back room and introduced himself and "you must be Dusty and Samantha?" Both of us shocked, we said yes and asked how he knew our names. He told us that the hostle I had tried to book in Portrush was a sister hostle of his and they had passed on my request to him, and he had booked us and was just awaiting our arrival.
This irony continues for the whole time we have been here. We visited Giants Causeway, and Carrick-a-reed rope bridge and every place God has shown us that he is our best travel companion. I wish I had enough energy to share it all tonight, but sadly I'm just praying this makes sense! =)
We are leaving in the morning for Dublin. I think we are going to try the train, but we'll see.
Praise our Lord for He is amazing!!
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