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Now that was way too random nevertheless I had a good laugh =).

My Favorite part of traveling is of course by default meeting new people or meeting up with some old FIRST friends. Now as far as Traveling stories I'm pretty sure I have a few but cannot remember them completely so I won't even try to tell them but I can say that those were some funny memories.

Every time I go to a FIRST Event I try and take as much time off according to how long the Event is. When I get to that Event whether its NYC, NJ, Champs or PARC I always have a blast, I have not been to one event where I didn't have fun. I feel like I'm a totally different person when I'm at a FIRST Event compared to when I'm at work or at home. Something about FIRST changes me when I'm at one of the events. And then when the Event is done it's always sad to see everything get packed up. I Miss Atlanta =(. Why does the championship only have to be 3 days.

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Best thing I can say about traveling has already been said by a friend of mine...
"On the road again, I just can't wait to get on the road again.
Going places that I've never been, seeing things I may never see again.
I just can't wait to get on the road again!" :D

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I usually get weird looks when going through security when we fly to PNW... It usually has something to do with my combat boots, studded metal belt, and spiked blue hair. Oh, and the fast that I have a titanium pin in my left foot (I shattered the arch of it in a freak zip line accident).

So Airport security is always a bit "fun."

As for a funny story, here goes. Our programmer is, to say, a bit of a klutz. He has a tendency to lose things and drop even more things. So we no longer let him carry his own boarding pass, as he's lost it in the past. The kid can program a robot like no other, but he can't seem to hold onto his own possessions...

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I really liked playing ultimate frisbee with team 20(?) (not sure exactly, sorry if I'm wrong, so much happened in Atlanta for me to remember all the details).

Hours of bus rides watching movies, playing games, sleeping, and (my favorite) messing with people's heads...how is that not fun?

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This is my first year (Freshman)

So, I learned a few things at BMR.
1. I learned that Bawls can do bad things to you (Hence one of our team members (name not to be announced) shaking and laughing histarically in her room the entire time.
2. Monty Python and the Holy Grail is officially our troop movie.

This last fall, I loved traveling. Left on a train from Chicago to San Diego and all it was from there to Florida was my bike, the road, and a bag for 2 and a half months. One of the best times I have ever had.:D

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Anyone for football on the bus?

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Basically I hate to travel so my favorite part is coming home to my own bed. But I have lots of great memories from traveling with RAGE and now I guess I enjoy meeting people that I've only met through e-mail and CD. It's funny how things that were "issues" when they were happening (hotel beds breaking, elevators messed up, stinky sneakers, students never changing their clothes for days at a time, really bad smelling busses, my mentor meltdowns, making sandwich lunches for 40 people in my hotel room in the morning, following the Buzz smiley face for 1,000 miles on the way to Atlanta... they all bring smiles now!

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Mine would be the random signs(messages on paper) and gestures to other vehicles!

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I have lots of really fun/funny memories but one that makes me smile every time is purple cookies.

We have a mom who makes the team purple cookies for travel. I think they are sugar cookies that she adds purple food coloring to.

I'm not sure how the timing occurs but the team member who doles out those cookies to the rest of us always knows the absolute perfect moment.

Purple cookies rock.

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A lot of the kids on our team are seniors, and I am a freshmen so I really enjoyed hanging out w/ them. I'm also the only girl out of the 3 freshmen on our team. I hung with the guys a lot, but it was great. One of the guys on our team, Blake, dropped his suitcase down the stairs at the MARTA. It was like a rocket, and almost knocked over a couple people. Good times. Oh p.s. No one got hurt! We also ran to Publix really late at night to get donuts! - wow im really going to miss the seniors. :(