Dear Readers, Well, I'm sad to admit it but the tour is over. I hope you all enjoyed my blogs. Traveling around the world was a once in a lifetime experience, and I am so glad that I got to do it. It was truly amazing! I ended the tour in a very unexpected place, I thought it was going to end in England. Where it began, but it turned out that I went an extra 4,914 miles and ended up in back in the USA. Hello Oregon!!! It feels good to be back in America; b...

Greece The world is my school today, and my classroom is Greece. DDDDDDRRRRRRRRRIIIIIINNNNNGGGGGGG!!!!!!! I just walked up a giant hill to see this! The Parthenon under construction! We just have a few hours here and I spent half of it walking up a giant hill to see a construction site! I mean it is very beautiful to see the Parthenon in Greece,but if you take away the construction it would be 10 times better. Well anyway, I'm in Greece today, home of...

Sicily The world is my school today, and my classroom is in Sicily, Italy. Were only here for a day so this will be a short blog. We start the day with a yummy cannoli, Mmmmmmmmm! Next we saw the hour change at the chapel in the downtown area; it was very special because the hour changing took about 10 minutes itself. It is the most complicated clock that I have ever seen! That's mostly all that we did in Sicily… sorry about the rrrreeaaallllyyy shor...

Pompeii The world is my school today, and my classroom is in the ancient city of Pompeii. Pompeii is an ancient Roman town-city near Naples, in the Italian region of Campania. Pompeii is the home of Mt. Vesuvius, which is the volcano that erupted in 79 AD killing the whole city. Most houses and people were buried under 4-6m of ash from the eruption. Scientists believe that the city of Pompeii, was founded in the 6th the or 7th century BC. They also b...

Amalfi The world is my school. today my classroom is in Amalfi, Italy. Amalfi was the first capital of Italy before Rome. It is very beautiful and right on the seaside. The water is freezing, but very clear and blue. The water is so clear that you can see 20ft down to the bottom! It is so beautiful. Amalfi was built right into the cliffs, and is right on the beautiful sea. This makes for interesting, even thrilling, driving . Even the most stable st...