Ticket to Ride (I mean fly)

My passport arrived yesterday!!
It took a little over a week from the day I applied at my local post office.

Every day I would go to travel.state.gov to check on the status of my application. Every day it said that my application had not been received. Even though they cashed my check.

Despite the fact that the passport is sitting on my desk, according to the U.S. Department of State website they have not yet processed my application.

*sigh w/ eye roll*

~*Lizzie*~

Ultimate Halloween road trip

Sadly, I have yet again been cheated of Halloween ag-fun at the corn maze. Added to the fact that I did not make it to any theme park haunts this year, and it is looking like a slightly lame Halloween 2008 (i.e. sitting solo on my couch watching Michael Myers with a rainbow of snack-sized candy wrappers at my feet).

Here are my "someday" plans for awesome Halloween road trip:
* Sleepy Hollow, NY. I'm not sure if there is anything to do there, but I'd just like to say that I have been.
* Salem, Mass. Who wouldn't want to visit a town with road signs indicating that motorists yield right-of-way to people on broomsticks?!
* One night at the Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast. For $200 a night you too can stay in the same room where Mrs. Borden received her 40 whacks.
* Eastern State Penitentiary- Badass haunted house located in a 19th century prison spread out over 11 acres.
* Gettysburg, PA- A great way to satisfy both my macabre side and inner history nerd.

~*Lizzie*~

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It's the Great Pumpkin Maze, Emma Jane!

Tonight is the night that Lizzie and I visit the pumpkin maze. We're driving a pretty hefty distance to get there at dusk... so I'm hoping it's worth it! In reading the site, I see there's a haunted house. Now, this could go 2 ways with me... it's either a pansy, child's walk through or it's a scary-ass, enveloping scream fest. I'll be able to tell once I get there. If I hear adults and teens (that have hit puberty and don't sound like eunuchs) screaming, then I won't go in there. If I hear and see herds of children running and screaming... I may be tempted to go in. My fear of scary things is not unnoticed by my circle of friends. I know that Lizzie will go in because she's fearless and can watch movies with things that go stab in the head. Unfortunately, like a school dance where one doesn't have a date... she's gonna go stag.

Every year this farm does a corn maze. EVERY year! Every year, Lizzie has missed it... this year... today she will see what the excitement is about! I've been only one time and had a great time suffering in the maze. Nobody told me that it was going to be sweltering hot in the valley in October! I hope it's not like that today! I'm hoping for the best when we're running around the maze!

I was reminded by a friend of how being in the maze could be reminiscent of Signs.... but really? Aliens? in the corn maze? *sigh* I doubt it. Besides, they were afraid of water. So, to be safe, I'll carry water. You know... to hydrate myself.... and to hurl at aliens. But, just so you know... um.. I doubt the validity of aliens in the corn maze. They like houses with Mel Gibson that are surrounded by corn fields. I won't be anywhere near one of those. My deduction... no aliens in the cornfield. so HA!

The Great APE debate

On November 1st and 2nd, Lizzie and I will be attending the Alternative Press Expo (APE) in San Francisco with some of our library colleagues. This is my first foray into any kind of comic convention, so I look forward to what it brings. I will not dress up. You will not catch me as doing Cos-Play being that I marginally dress up for Halloween! A week from today I'll be readying myself for a trip to the big city.

If you have any tips on good eats there around the APE venue, let us know!

Get Thee a Passport

My partner in travel, Elizabeth (Lizzie) has finally applied for a passport! Wooo!! It's such a rush to know that we're thismuch closer to traveling abroad. I have had my passport since last year's trip to Bali. I was, though, caught in that "too many passports, so little time and resources" government fiasco so I spent more than half of my day at the passport processing office in San Francisco.

I'm reminded of how happy I look in my passport picture. Irma Bombeck..... the title of your best selling book in the late 80s is wrong. When I look like my passport picture, I'm ready to leave home!

Intro

I'm Emma. I'm half of the dynamic duo that will be blogging about our travel plans to.. everywhere. I don't know what you all want to know about me... but don't expect any pictures soon. lol

Here's some basics:
I'm female.
I live in Northern California.
I work in a library.
I wear glasses.