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Travel Blogs from Washington D.C., United States
Seattle
This is a top pick! Low-riders, CB radios and soon disco. Coming home to America was a bigger adjustment than traveling to the Middle East. Now it's fashion instead of survival. Commercialism instead of religion. I hope you enjoyed my postcard tour of ...
Mobing the boat
This is a top pick! Seattle is where this journey begins. This job is also for Williamson and Associates, our company has been doing a lot of work with them lately. Donny is up in Seattle as well doing a NOAA survey in Oak Harbor for these guys at the same time as a matter ...
1st world charm
This is a top pick! Ahhhh... ...a computer that works. I'm back safely in the states now. Oddly enough, NOW I'm facing culture shock! After a week, I can finally keep down American food without getting nauseous. Time is a funny thing to me. A few ...
City of coffee!
This is a top pick! ... about working in that crazy cluster of skyscrappers! Skipping my focus from downtown, I can see the stretch of land of Washington state leading to snowy mountains in the background. A perfect clear day to view this gracious state. I've only ...
Museums, more famous stuff and shopping
This is a top pick! ... Actually it was Union Station. It has stores, Amtrak, and the Metro. I also found the first real food for a decent price in Washington DC. So far all I'd really seen was museum food, which is not very good and is way overpriced. Then I decided that it ...
Sleeping in Seattle
This is a top pick! So we got up in San Fran at some ridiculously early hour (you know 6am or something like the time we used to get up EVERY day when we had jobs!) and made our way down to the airport to catch our flight with Virgin America. It was a great flight as Virgin ...
Scriptless in Seattle
This is a top pick! Why is everyone 'Sleepless in Seattle', excuse the cliche? The home of the original Starbucks has a Coffee shop in nearly every corner. My theory is their coffee intake must be significantly higher than many other cities. Seattle was a weekend away to ...
A non tourist view of DC
This is a top pick! Day 173 June 25th continued - For some reason, my friend Courtney was unable to spot me outside the central train station in Washington DC. My cell phone was having issues again, so I decided to see if I could find her and I did! We walk back to her ...
Chesapeake Bay bridge tunnel: impressive
This is a top pick! ... drove down to Virginia Beach, is that where they have one of those big golf tournaments? Then drove back up North towards Washington DC. Slight detour to see if we could find Jamestown, site of one of the first settlements that failed. Did find Yorktown ...
Prework to China
This is a top pick! I was selected for this trip because I did a good job in Hungary last year. The players are pretty much the same, a group of engineers and workers in an electronic manufacturing plant. This plant is Dongguan, China. The flight leaves Seattle ...
Lake George Here We Come Roadtrip-A-Rama, DAY 1
This is a top pick! Day One of our first real roadtrip. Tris and I are accompanied by our friend Chris. She is running late! Crazy people with their late packing and so on. We arrive late because she said on the phone how if we arrived on time she would not be ready. ...
USA - Bound for Seattle
This is a top pick! ... We stayed in Vancouver for one more night. Then we were US bound again the next day. Our destination was Seattle (in Washington State). Dan booked our tickets through Amtrak (the train company). Dan was excited about the prospect of a journey on one of ...
The big unstructured plan.
This is a top pick! Maybe I'll drive from Seattle and up to Alaska, sell my Japanese car for gold nuggets and catch a flight south to Guatemala City. Or Oaxaca, Mexico, or... Maybe I'll drive to LA or Houston, Texas instead. I'll probably find a cheaper flight to Central ...
A Healthy Dose of Patriotism
This is a top pick! ... Congress. This stately granite building was erected before war with the British so unsurprisingly it was razed when they invaded Washington DC. Unsurprisingly again it was reconstructed with an even more grandiose tower. A symbol of the great new ...
Visiting The Groom-To-Be
This is a top pick! ... a week away we drove down to Seattle with their parents for a short visit. The Vancouver sun gave way to intermittent Washington rain, but the gorgeous forests loomed large. Unfortunately most of the mountains were shrouded in cloud. The skies ...
Weekend in Seattle
This is a top pick! After a few days feasting and resting in Vancouver, the five of us (Sylvia’s Mom and Dad, Sylvia, Jason and Chaplin the Canadian beaver, our new travel buddy, who we discovered at a souvenir shop on Robson Street) piled into the Subaru for a ...
Among My Souvenirs
This is a top pick! ... bucks. And the pirates do their best to stay current. The Bruce Willis thriller "16 Blocks" went into wide release in the United States on March 3, 2006. I could have purchased the DVD from a sidewalk vendor in Dongguan, China on March 3, 2006, but I'm ...
Almost there, yeah!!!
This is a top pick! ... RTW trip. I've had two friends over from Norway and they basically just left. We had a very good time, being Norwegian tourists in Washington. There so much stuff to do and see around Seattle (one of the main reasons I'm a bit sad to leave), so it's ...
Home Again
This is a top pick! The trip is over and we return home after: --- 7 ½ Months --- 7 Counties --- 52 Different Hotels --- 56 Different Cities I hope that those of you who read my postings and review the pictures had enjoyed them. No plans yet as to our next ...
Hello Seattle...........we're listening
This is a top pick! ... became completely irrelevant as the flight was delayed which meant we would have missed our onward flight to Washington DC. So they kindly moved us onto a United flight direct next morning. Meant being late to meet our friend, John, and ...
simon's short piece of advise
This is a top pick! Tourist tack, If your short of time in a big city but you want to see a lot then take a duck, not a real one but a boat that goes both on water and land, what fun. It helped that we had a crazy captain for a driver who really didn't care what the ...
Lest we forget!
This is a top pick! ... the Veterans, the Pledge of Allegiance and then an Introduction of Guests. We hear from the guest speaker, the Vice-President of the United States, and then all is over with the Retiring of the Colours. What did I think of all this? I felt ...
To be young again
This is a top pick! ... schoolkids, so no peace. I made for new lodgings because HI was booked out) at the cumbersomely named International House of United Tel (somehow abbreviated to UTI) and was greeted in a vintage home on 6th street with plentiful facilities but complete ...
Let the Road Trip Begin, But First We Need a Car
This is a top pick! From Hawaii we flew to Seattle to visit our friend Jamie and start planning our trip back across the United States. Allison, though, had to leave almost immediately to go visit some law schools on the other side of the country, so Jamie and Jeff had the ...
LABOR DAY, OUR SUMMER ENDS
This is a top pick! Adam was so happy to be back in the United States, he ran. We were in an intimate college town in Washington state. The bars had just closed. And frat-boy Adam, as he did best, was drinking. He revealed to us that when he drinks, one of the ...
Cute little Bellingham!
This is a top pick! Day 146 May 29th continued - The ride from Seattle takes no time at all. Seeing as I didn't eat at Mary's I found a small cafe that had some home made soup, and of course, being on the West coast still, unable to avoid having a coffee. Apparently, ...
Start of Southeast Asia Odyssey
This is a top pick! We are on the road again, our second leg of the "Goodrich Odyssey" to see the world. Our next stop, Southeast Asia for 7 ½ months of trains, planes, buses, boats, elephant-riding and by foot to see the overwhelming display of geographical, ecological, ...
The Luck of the Irish
This is a top pick! ... and with its high fences and overwhelming security, certainly more fitting of the power of the President. I finished my sights of Washington with a tour of the remaining Art Gallery. The West Building is more classically designed than the East, but ...
Eb's U.K Update
This is a top pick! Hey all! Eb here. Okies, Liam had his turn last time at bloggin' 'bout Blighty, so now I'll have a crack at it, even though it's late and we're now in the USA, I just had to get this one out. There'll probably be another US update soon. Here ...
Washington Wonderland
This is a top pick! ... too unkind to him. After a brief catch up we went for a walk and saw the White house, Reflecting pool, Lincoln, Washington Monument, Korean and WWII memorials. All very impressively lit up at night. Really couldn't believe we were here, ...