A K12 web blog hosting provider for individuals, schools, admin, teachers, support staff, students, educational organizations, and educational proponents. http://www.myedublog.com en-us MyEduBlog RSS Feeds http://joycesjourney.myedublog.com/30/ Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:27:01 +0300 JoyceMayfield Imagine the sun shining on your face and a slight breeze at your heels- lifting you and your soul a little higher off the warming cement. Skipping around the psuedoworld of bustling touristy downtown Chicago and allowing whatever fancy or whim to take over your haphazard agenda. And so you'd understand how my week was spent in Chicago.   I invited myself to visit a friend during his trip to Chicago for the National Reporters Convention. While he attended the convention during the day, I explored the city and together we enjoyed Chicago's nightlife. Here's a list of attractions I visited while there. Day 1- Navy Pier and the Stained Glass Museum, Magnificent Mile for shopping, Second City Comedy Club and Lion's Head Pub for dancing. Day 2 - Hancock Observatory, Contemporary Art Museum, 101 Bistro for lunch, Addler Planetarium, Grant Park, Vivere fine italian restaurant, Rumba Room for salsa dancing, Day 3 - Chicago style pizza, Grant park for ice cream, water taxi to Navy Pier, friend's condo in North Beach suburb, Wicked the broadway play, Day 4- Chicago Art Museum, Bergoff downtown for German cuisine, Day 5 - Chicago style hot dogs, airport to say goodbye to friend, Green Mill Jazz club (famous for great jazz and Al Capone's hang out spot.   Check out the pictures in the photo album for more info. Hope you enjoy.   http://joycesjourney.myedublog.com/28/ Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:24:00 +0300 JoyceMayfield My Edu Blog users now have the ability to report objectional content for review or deletion. To do this reporting, anyone or any of our users has to only click the Report Inappropriate Blog Content button at the bottom of each user's blog page. Do this will alert My Edu Blog, which will follow through to determine if the blog's content or comments should be deleted. This will allow all of us work together to maintain the integrity of My Edu Blog, and keep it from being hijacked from unscrupulous people or companies that have no purpose whatsoever for using our services.   Chill http://news.myedublog.com/27/ Sun, 24 Sep 2006 22:50:00 +0400 news Check out the map of Alaska for reference. Mary Beth and I drove from her house in Fairbanks to Anchorage ( about 370 miles). From Anchorage, James and I hitch-hiked to Palmer and then Valdez, which is about 300 miles. "Who is James", you ask? I'll tell you about that later.If you look at the map you can see that there is only one road to many of the coastal towns. That means that if you don't own/rent a car or want to pay for the flight, hitch-hiking is the only way to get there. Just to note, our ride hosts for both our journey to and from Valdez were Alaskans. Alaskans definetly tend to give a helping hand more often than not. I think it is becuase they live according to Karma. No one wants bad Karma when they encounter car problems on the side of a remote highway in the middle of the winter. Its like passing the favor on. A good lesson for all of us.    More details about the 7 day sea kayaking trip are in the photo album. Make sure you click on each picture until you see the narrative.                   Here is a map of Prince William Sound to use for reference.We started in Valdez and went to Columbia Glacier. http://www.bearfootguides.com/communities/maps/princeWilliamSound.gif       Here is a map of the route we took. We started in Valdez. First night we stayed along the sound, second night we were in shoop glacier, third night we were in Shoop, fourth night we went to Sawmill bay, fifth and sixth nights we were in Columbia Bay. It is about 35 nautical miles to Columbia, I expect we paddled about 40 miles to Columbia Bay with our side trips.     http://www.anadyradventures.com/pws/map.html   http://joycesjourney.myedublog.com/25/ Sat, 12 Aug 2006 06:21:00 +0400 JoyceMayfield Mary Beth, Blu Regard, and I set out to Anchorage for the weekend. Our departure from Fairbanks got later and later because our lazy, procrastinating selves couldn't clean her house or get organized until 9pm. We arrived in Anchorage at 3am and realized that we were in the big city.Fairbanks has a population of about 40, 000 and Anchorage has a population of about 270,000. Yup. After about 45 minutes of driving endlessly around trying to find a specific road, we asked several people directions. Apparently people in Anchorage aren't very aware of their surroundings and we had to buy a map. Mary Beth was the navigator and as she found our route to the hotel, Blu Regard decided to help. As Blu Regard jumped into her lap, MaryBeth politely moved the map out of his way. The map was quickly wisked away by the draft of the open window and lost to the dark city streets. hehehe Oh well. More adventure for us. Check out  the photo album and be sure to click on each picture until you can read a description. http://joycesjourney.myedublog.com/24/ Sun, 06 Aug 2006 03:07:00 +0400 JoyceMayfield