Hotels in Washington DC - Prices and Reviews

DC, Obama, and Me

I've been working on my relationship with DC and President Obama. We've had some disagreements in the past, and I thought that this trip may be the anecdote for some animosity brooding in my blood.

I've never been a fan of the famous Obama "Hope" sign. It reminded me of some totalitarian communist "Work" emblem. While most of the nation ...

Jun 07, 2009

Hello All

So I have been in Arequipa nearly a week now and its been pretty good so far. Today is my first proper shift at the hostel, i'm going to be running it on my own on saturdays and sundays haha which i think is quite funny. I think i shall make a good hostel runner (is that the word)?

I arrived here on Monday and was suppose...

Landslides here, there, everywhere

When a landslide happened in the US elections, getting rid of Bush and his cronies, and bringing in a new era with a black president, on the other side of the Pacific, Vietnam and Yunnan in China have been experiencing other kinds of landslides: For Yunnan, Xinhua has provided an unusual level of detail: Number of fatalities: 40 Number of missin...

Washington Day 2 & 3

Day 2 We wanted to check out some of the museums and sites, however we also decided to change to a brand new hotel which opened today, the hotel is CIA themed and is very modern. They imported the furniture from Italy and each room comes with a "cocoon" - or what i thought shell shaped shower. We were lucky enough to be some of only a few to be ...

Day 3-5 - New York to the Great Smokey Mountains

Day 3 - New York to Washington DC Woke up to another scorcher in NY. Mission this morning was to find an internet cafe. Not an easy task apparently...took 2 hours to find one near Houston. Next mission was to pick up the hire car. A bargain at $1000 + $199 return fee as the car will have to get back from San Francisco to New York. The car I orde...

Sooo tired

15 minutes till it's 3 am here at Island Lake where Amber is ready to eat some children for lunch. Maybe with a little salt and gravy they'll go down real nice? It's been interesting no less. A lot of whining, fighting, crying, complaining yada yada yada will somebody send me the drug that can either knock them out for most of a day or make them...

Washington DC - Capital of the free world!

Well actually we're in Maryland not in the District of Columbia but we're close enough! We've spent the last week here staying with Phil and his wife Alla and their adorable baby Aaron. Phil is an old friend of James and was the best man at our wedding. We've spent the week wandering around the museums and monuments all around the Mall area. Thi...

Well i had meant to write this up during ...

Well, I had meant to write this up during the vacation, but with the combined factor's of lots of fun, drinking 'til dawn and the small problem of no internet access, I find myself doing the whole thing on the last day of my vacation. I'll try to remember events as best as they happened... Day 1: Thursday Shortly after finishing work Thursday, a...