Days Inn - Silver Spring

I have just had one of my most unpleased travel experiences and I have traveled all over the world. I always thought a wonderful way to see the country would be from an Amtrak cross country sleeper car. On Friday afternoon I set out on a cross country trek from Washington DC to San Diego California, by Amtrak train. The trip from Washington DC t...

We stayed with Fran and Ted Feinberg on our second to last night on the road. Fran and Ted (or Fred and Tan as Hannah says) are the parents of Eric's sister, Julie's husband. Hmmm...another way - they are Eric's sister's in-laws. It's very confusing, especially when we try to describe who Jenn and Tyson are (they're Eric's sister's husband's sis...

I wanted to play a golf course outside my normal rotation, but did not feel like traveling too far to get there. Consulting the list "Top 100 Must-Play Courses of the Middle Atlantic" generated by the magazine, Washington Golfstyles, I identified a couple of courses within the DC Beltway that I have not played, yet. So far I have checked off 32 ...

April 26 Today was our Monuments and Memorials tour. The first stop was the Thomas Jefferson Memorial. It was big. The statue was 19 feet tall. Some of his famous speeches were also there. It was interesting to see because it was similar to White House and the Capitol. Our next stop was the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial. He was President for fo...

Just bought my textbooks on Amazon, I hope they come soon. I have to read four books before the program starts. I'm not even halfway through the first one...I also bought Lonely Planet's Europe on a Shoestring. Combined with my cousin Will's Ireland books I should be all set. My cousin Alison reminded me about personal travel websites and I thou...

Caught the bus and then the subway into Washington D.C, it took about an hour. First impression as we came up out of the subway: beautiful old buildings and lots of greenery. We walked south from the subway (a friendly security guard helped us) and found the Mall easily enough. We were surprised that the grass was quite long (but then realised t...

End of Trip Round Up: We had an amazing trip cross country and back. Seeing so many wonderful, new, beautiful, and quirky places, as well as some friendly faces along the way. We broke in our Odyssey and we broke ourselves in as parents. It is hard to sum it all up, but we will try. Thanks for sharing the odyssey with us! Stats: Days on the road...

June 9 - Day 1 We got a late start - left at 10:25 - but we're doing well its 7:50 and we're almost in Bristol, VA which is on the Tennessee Virginia border - about another hour to go. When we finish the day we'll have gone 530 miles! 4 states in one day! (PA, MD, WV, VA) Pretty good huh? And that's with us passing a total of 4 cars and 1 truck ...

Hello everyone:) We have been here in NYC for 3 days. I haven't even written anythin in my journal yet. My dad and Mindy George are along for this leg of the tour when we'll be traveling Chicago-NYC-Atlanta-Orlando-Miami-Chica go. A few changes have been made to my experience, starting with Teen People magazine going under. Since September is th...

Guntersville, Alabama I would like to introduce myself. My name is Lewis Eugene Garrett. Lewis came from my grandfather, Lewis Camp. Eugene was stuck in because my father admired Eugene Debs, a losing presidential candidate who earned notoriety as a union organizer. My parents called me Eugene. I hated the name because, to me, it had an effemina...