Hampton Inn Columbia
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The Shortest Day
... group leader,but we got checked in and agreed to meet for dinner. We handsome trouble with the language and ended up back at the front desk looking for the trip leader. It seems he was waiting for us outside the hotel, but somehow we missed him. He gave us a briefing and helped us order a light meal from the lobby cafe. Then after a couple of emails home from the lobby wifi, it was back to my room for a little tv and an early ...
Highs and lows in the capital city!!
... Anyway eventually with phil now completing our travelling group we rammed all five of us into a four seater taxi and headed back to the silly hostel! Once phil had been through check in with another very unenthusiastic receptionist we all sat in the lounge and chatted for quite some time. Eventually tiredness took over and we headed to the room and tried to quietly get ready for bed and all passed out! We were awoken to a very energetic phil at 8am (well it was technically 1pm for ...
Capital of america
... blossom trees in front. For the St-Patrick's day, the light in the fountain was green and which I found really funny. It was hard to get a photo really in front of it and see all because it was really crowded and it's only a side walk so it's easy to step on someone's toe and hard to take a picture because everyone is walking between the kodak and you. Then we walked into the ellipse to get to see closer the Washington Monument, ...
The east coast earthquake!
... on January 28, 1986 and doing a number of projects on it so seeing that brought me back to that time. Later I learned that Scobee and Smith are actually buried in Arlington, and unidentified remains of the crew were also buried there beneath the memorial. Beside it is a memorial for the Columbia shuttle that exploded in re-entry in 2003.
Also, there was a memorial to the USS Maine in which the actual mast was on display. The USS Maine, named after ...
One Day To Go
... pockets of my travel vest. It will be interesting seeing what happens at airport security.
One other issue is that Benedryl is illegal in Zimbabwe, so I've had to go through my travel medicine containers and remove the little pink Benedryl tablets and also the Tylanol PM (since it contains the benedryl drug) just to be on the safe side. I'm not sure why it is illegal, but I've heard that Zimbabwe jails are ...
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Amenities
- Free High-Speed Internet
- Swimming pool
- Wheelchair accessibility
- Fitness/Health center
- Free parking