Residence Inn Alexandria at Carlyle

... par 4 (286yard), I scored a ten when I pulled my drive out of bounds across Woodlawn road. My fourth shot ended up into woods on the left of the green. My fifth found the green side bunker. It took two shots to get out of the sand but I still am not on the green. Laying 7 and I find the ball under a bench. Using some imagination and a great deal of luck, I hit the ball out with my putter and on to the green. My adventures did not end there; I drove ...

... from half-closed to three-quarters. His long nose pointed menacingly in my direction. "Okay, well if that's that, that's that, I guess." He began to address the group again. "Be extra careful round bats and 'coons then, okay y'all?" Everyone nodded assent. The staff call ended with a wave of the hand from the big boss, and off the ants in the room scurried, back to their holes. I filed out of the room in the last wave, watching the videoconference screen flicker to black ...

... Picchu and then down to Lima for the flight home. Wow, that's a lot. Aren't you going to be exhausted? Aren't you trying to do too much? Are you crazy? Every trip we've taken has provoked that reaction from someone and we've always had a fabulous time. We have built in days where we expect to do nothing but lounge around and watch the Olympics. We aren't over-scheduling activities for the non-travel days. We've thought carefully about what we want to see and ...

We've been traveling all day. Our flight was 10 hours from Buenos Aires to Washington D.C. Then United cancelled our flight to San Diego because of an antenna malfunction. We've been rerouted to Chicago and now we are waiting in Chicago for our flight to San Diego. I haven't slept much and am exhausted, but we are almost in SD which makes me happy. It's weird to be back in the States. The first thing we've noticed is the organization and ...

... AIR!!! When driving past it , it just looks like any other building. I only realised this when i passed it. BUGGER!!! My first chance to catch a picture of a famous building and i missed it. I arrived at Alexandria about 3pm so i had the chance to book in and maybe drive into Washington to get some tourist pictures. The room was not exactly top notch, infact it had not even been cleaned. I asked the cleaner next door if she could clean the room. Her answer was priceless " No ...

We arrived at Washington Dulles airport late on Friday night & took a cab all the way into town to where we are staying with Tom (a friend from the 2nd leg of the Africa overland truck). The jet-lag hasn't hit us too hard and we got enough sleep before waking up at 6am! We got up and went with Tom to a great diner for breakfast. Tom & his girlfriend Eliza live on 17th & U, north of Du Pont Circle - there's a lot of ...

... and joking! Sluething (sp?) was fun though. Surface searching was not so fun - way to hot! There was a great pool - fantastic water things - sprays, slides, waterfalls, fountains & sprays to squirt people. It was in the park but you had to pay $5 per person. The only downfall was that the deepest depth was 3 feet - I guess so that it's not an issue for little kids. However Paul & I were so hot we stayed in the entire time! It was a fun place ...

... I had to stop them and tell them my kids would not be left alone outside the cubical and brought them in while they had to stand and watch me be frisked. They even checked my "privates" as Jesse would say! These security people are doing their job but they do need some training on dealing with families with young children. They are just clueless. Finally, we made it on the plane and returned safely to Boston ...

... and had a really nice meal out at a restaurant that had live jazz playing and soaked up our last few hours in the city before walking back to the hotel, ready for our 4am start the next morning heading back to London.... Wow - sorry, if you made it this far, congrats - didn't want to drag it out but had lots to tell you, and even though we would've loved to have had a couple more days, we seemed to manage to cram in a fair bit in 3 1/2 days! Better stop...next adventure will be Ireland!

... it is now blocking traffic. Then we gotta put the ramps back in the garage, lock it up, put the key back in the house. Okay, so now we're off... to the bank. As we pull up to the bank, to make a deposit and get some cash, we're looking at the rig and seeing that it looks like a bad cartoon. The truck's hind end is significantly lower than the front end, and the trailer's front end is ...