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A travel blog entry by jim.coates

... them all get in the way. It is late Friday night before serious preparations begin. Another late night for Beth.

This time I have simplified things a lot. Acknowledging my age and love of sleeping I am now committed to the Trip Advisor led bed and breakfast and cheap motel system. Away with sleeping bags and tents and stoves and mats and gas canisters. This time I will carry books and lenses. Staying ...

And which terminal are we going?

A travel blog entry by paleojohn2010

... were back in the apartment in Crystal City, none the worse for wear.

Iceland was a really interesting place to visit, I don't think I really expected the terrain and conditions we found. I think that the prime draw to Iceland is as an outside adventure destination. The price of food was a bit surprising and most of the standard souvenirs were also a bit pricey. We didn't bring back ...

Gathering stuff .... early days

A travel blog entry by jim.coates

Well, I will believe it when I see it. I dream with biking to Alaska, and am gradually collecting the bits and pieces of equipment and information necessary to get me there in one piece. Mainly I am reading accounts of other rides, and trying to figure out how to give the trip ...

Politics and Education

A travel blog entry by daknees

... which would have been hard to do with all the groups touring at the same time. The Capitol was an impressive building with the architecture and history of its rebuilding and expansion. The inside of the rotunda and the dome is beautiful. The tour is not really very long and you don’t get to see as much as you used to with all the security now.

After the tour, we took the tunnel to the Library of Congress. ...

DC Delights

A travel blog entry by mercerballs

... if you are watching the changing of the guard by the tomb of the Unknowns then try to get a place on the right hand side as you look towards the tomb. From there you will see more of the 'action' - we were on the left!

Other moving monuments to past military sacrifice include the World War II, the Vietnam and the Korean War Memorials just 'in front' of the Lincoln Memorial. The Korean War monument is particularly effective with a platoon of life-size soldier figures ...