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A very short, long train ride from Orlando to DC
... arriving and leaving were headed to their families. So when the train arrived, we were lined up in single file and allocated a seat number. Since the train originated in Miami, it was quite full by the time it arrived in Orlando. I was unfortunately placed in an aisle seat next to a man who was asleep against the plug point where I desperately needed to charge my phone. I would've asked him to plug it in for me except that it looked like rigor mortis had set in so I thought it ...
Washington DC
Washington DC is the most amazing place. I guess I did not realise just how many monuments of national importance are housed in this city. Just over the past 12 hours, it has become painfully obvious that I am going to have to 'choose' what I am going to see and I am not happy that I am not going to have time to see everything I want to see…..
Our tour guide, Gerry, met us at our first stop – Arlington Cemetery. ...
Eyrún, Sandra, Guðbjörg, New York, J-Lo! :)
... hlusta á útvarpið
með sér og eldgamla konan sem að við héldum að ætlaði að drekkja sér en svo kom
í ljós að hún var bara aðeins og kæla fæturnar. Kíktum á Strawberry Fields,
minnisvarða John Lennon‘s. ...
Sweletering in Georgetown
... deck trying to see if we could get some vacant seats but the particularly vigilant attendants made it difficult. I ended up asking one of them if we could go look for some seats but instead he went looking for us. He came back and said we had 2 reserved seats but he told the people we where going to be sitting next to that Fiona needed to sit down because her leg was sore - her right one. I told her to limp as we approached our seats. The game was ...
Day 6 (NUEC Day 2)
... is, or what they tangibly want; a problem I think with many protests of this nature. One of our group comments that she thinks the back of the White House is better looking than the front. I think she might be right.
We start heading off in the general direction of the Capitol building. It's quite a walk. Rather than walking directly back to the Mall and then straight down, we take a diagonal route through the city. The buildings are all massive and impressive and this ...
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