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As I stupidly left my iPod somewhere in my bed sheets in Las Vegas 3 weeks ago, I've been listening to the radio a lot, and there's many songs I've heard which I really like and will have to accquire when I get home. The most unusual is Sean Kingston's ...
The Holocost Museum
Lisa and Cindy arrived at Lauren's house in the morning to meet us for a day in Washington DC. I was so excited to get to see Lisa again. Her mad cap adventure intersected with mine perfectly! What we didn't know when ...
Washington DC Training
... the final selection of the site. They picked a Frenchman as engineer, Pierre L'Enfant, who had fought for the States in the Revolutionary War, eventually as one of Washington's chief military engineers. Jefferson wrote the rules for ...
Time after Time
Now I'm back to the States, for that "interview" that was scheduled at a very bad time. I cut my trip short to make it, just for this interview. But, then, I failed. They told me: "You are not eligible." Now, trying to get back to my family in ...
Journal Entries--JULY
July 1, 2009 This week has been pretty crazy work wise. We have only gotten 2 and half days of work done because of picnics and the holiday. On Tuesday Megan and I went to a $5 movie at Union Station after work. We went and saw ...
From Paraty to Foz do Iguaçu via...
We´ve had a busy week since I last wrote so make a cup of tea and prepare for a long one. Okay so last time you left us in Paraty about to go on a couple of trips. The first one we took was to some waterfalls and a farm/distillery (there´s ...
Another Tour?? Really?
Okay. I broke down and decided to do a bus tour afterall. I had mixed feelngs about it as we were tired of so much walking, but it is difficult to avoid in DC. Even if you take the metro, you still have to walk to it. Still, ...
My first day in DC
Last night I flew into Virginia during a storm. My Uncle Jeff,Aunt Sue and Richie picked me up. This morning we took the subway to DC and straight after that we went to the Carousel. Then we walked to the Washington Monument. We went to ...
Hello, Mr President...
...well, of course I didn't get to say that because I never bumped into Mr Obama - even though I went round to his house!! Apparently he's a busy man, no time for a wee cup of tea with me. Washington is a lovely city (well the parts of it I saw are, I'm ...
The Captiol
... When we got there at night most of the public buildings were illuminated. You can tell that this is the capitol of the United Staates. Around 9 pm we had to leave the place before the White House and about 10 Minutes later a helicopter flew right over ...
Day 10
ok here we are about 95 miles outside of St Louis, MO. Today was a travel day. Hopefully tomorrow will bring bright and sunshiny skies and smiles. We are going to Fenway in St louis even though the Cards are playing away games. ...
Half A Day In The Capital
So after a night of pretty much no sleep at all onboard an Amtrak train we arrived in Washington DC only 2 hours late... seriously how do they lose so much time on these trains??? weird. We'd decided prior to leaving home that we really wanted to see ...
Political science
Studying at Georgetown University is both interesting and hard. It is interesting because perspectives are viewed from perspectives that are new to me. Also, I find teachers inspiring and the knowledge of students extensive. These factors contribute to ...
Leaving Columbia...
We left Columbia, SC bright and early in the AM with our sights set on Princeton, NJ, the first stop in my excellent Ivy League ...
Washington DC
Arrived in Washington this morning at 6.45am, buggered after a 4 hr flight and a 3hr time change. Slept for a couple of hours in a REALLY nice bed.. our apartment is part of the Hilton chain.. very nice :) Walked around all the monuments today, ...
Crystal Serenity Pacific Escape
This trip originated out of fears of recent criminal activity in Mexico. Crystal Cruises responded by cancelling 2 seven-day cruises to the Mexican Riviera and replaced them with a pair of seven-day coastal cruises, from Los Angeles to Vancouver and ...
George, George, George of the Jungle
While we were rafting yesterday, our raftguide was telling us about the Treetops Canopy Tour that Rivermen offers. Melissa and Chris (the couple from Tampa) were going to be doing it in the morning and it sounded like a lot of fun. So, we figured since ...
Train ramblings by Nick
Some guy standing in the middle of the aisle just finished "preaching". It was tough to hear what he was jabbering about (what with my trying to selfishly read), but he seemed to stretch from the breaking down of the American railway system to the ...
The safest place in the world
... a splendid treat of organisation and coordination. DC must be the safest place in the world. http://www.evolpub.com/Americandialects/AmDialMap.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_(United_States) ...
Washington DC
Hello, welcome to Washington DC. We are loving the museums and the monuments - well I mean Doug is, I am loving the shopping. Yippee! Off to New York tomorrow, however I will update this as soon as possible. With love and hugs Ali ...
Ben's Chili Bowl
Today the boys participated in the opening ceremonies of the Pueri Cantores Festival. Boys had a wonderful opportunity to celebrate Mass with hundreds of other young children frmo all over America. They also had another day of reliving history. Tim ...
9th August - D.C., all things Presidential
Washington D. C. For our first full day in DC we were in luck, it happened to be one of the three days throughout the whole year that the White House gardens are open to the public. We were dropped into the city shortly after 8:30 a.m. and headed ...
The US Capital
After an early start (4:30am) we got to the nation's capital around 11 and got a bus to the edge of the Metro. Thanks to an entertaining station manager we got two day passes and headed for downtown DC where we got off a couple of 'blocks' from where we ...
DC! Where Obama lives, woohoooooo
A 9 hour bus trip on those stupid bumpy pot hole filled roads with max 1 hour sleep prepared us for nothing of what today was going to bring. We got into DC at 7:30am and couldn't check into our hostel until 10am, so we had an extraaa long brekky :) We ...
Layovers Galore
Not much sleep last night as the reality of hitting the road again sunk in. After finally getting to sleep around 2am I awoke at. 4 to make the final decision on a few items I couldn't decide whether to bring or not after procrastinating for days. ...
Night at the Museum
Slept in well this morning, until 9.30am thanks to Dad's snoring not being too severe and Maurice not getting up at 6am to have a shower. We decided to take the day fairly easily as we’d pretty much seen all the sights. We started off by going to ...