http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Ood/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Ood en-us Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:11:25 +0000 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:11:25 +0000 New York City Day 77 Monday01.06.2009 So if you remember many weeks ago now we are at the HINew York and the reception we had last night was crap. Because we had booked our 3 night stay over 2 different phone calls we were on separate reservations so had to leave one room for another not a problem we are flexible like that. The thing was we had to check out by 11am but we could only check http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-York/New-York/Manhattan/blog-431897.html Boston Via Salem Massachusetts Via Lowell Massachusetts Philadelphia Pittsburgh New YorkDay 70 Monday25.05.2009So itrsquos Boston to Philadelphia with two pit stops along the way. First was the Salem where the Salem witch trials had taken place all those years ago. We went straight to the Salem Witch Museum and got there just as a tour was about to start. So how nice of them was it to http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Massachusetts/Boston/blog-408288.html Dodgeville Wisconsin House on the Rock Chicago through Indiana through Michigan London Onterio Niagara Falls through New York BostonDay 63 Monday18.05.2009Monday morning and a fresh start to the week with us leaving Dodgeville to go to Chicago via The House on The Rock. Of course we thought Dodgeville was a brilliant name for the place and posed quite dodgily in front of their town s http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Wisconsin/blog-408279.html Vancouver Banff Calgary through Montana Via Fargo North Dicota through Minnesota Dyersville Iowa Dodgeville Wisconsin Day 56 Monday11.05.2009It was time to leave Vancouver and drive what we thought then was a long 9hour drive to Banff. After our usual morning fuckeries and saying goodbye to Baby by far the best thing here we left at 1pm. It was second hangover day and as some of http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver/blog-407242.html Seattle Vancouver CanadaDay 49 Monday04.05.2009Wersquore in Seattle or Setle as we like to pronounce it to fuck with the locals. Wersquove only got one more day here so we wanted to fill it with Seattley things. Our itinerary consisted of seeing the Space Needle going to Seattlersquos aquarium and hiring a rowboat to fuck around on Lake Washington.The Space Needle which is basically http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/blog-407237.html Day 42 Monday27.04.2009Previously on Sarah and Gemrsquos travelshellipwe are in San Fran I am hungover for a change and Gem is on cloud nine as she has met Ky aka Bird. We trotted off to go and explore the city and we headed for Haight the old hippy district where apparently the summer of love kicked off. I took loads of pictures and we both generally soaked up the atmos trying to not http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/blog-402992.html Las Vegas Via San Dimus Santa Barbara Via Guadalupe Sand Dunes Via San Luis Obispo Via Cambria Elephant Seals Via Big Sur Santa Cruz San FransiscoDay 35 Monday 20.04.2009Righty Roo. It is officially party time as tomorrow is one of the most important days of the year my birthday so we packed up and fucked off to Vegas baby. Coachella was still fookin hot team that with restless n http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Nevada/Las-Vegas/blog-402173.html L.A Indeo CoachellaDay 28 Monday 13.04.2009So the plan for our day in Hollywood was of course to go to the Hollywood Walk of Fame and Mannrsquos Chinese Theatre. As soon as we got there however and parked up around 11.55am this information IS important we realised what the date was and we actually needed to drop off the car TODAY at you guessed it 12pm Brilliant. We had completely g http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/Hollywood/blog-397876.html Santa Fe Grand Canyon Flagstaff Via Sedona San Diego Via Corona Via Torrance LA Day 21 Monday06.04.2009So I learnt a little fact today New Mexico is in the mountains I knew that already and so the altitude here is quite high that is no the fact wait for it. I learnt that this is the reason my nose hasnrsquot stopped bleeding for 3 days lovely. I thought id start this weekrsqu http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-Mexico/Santa-Fe/blog-396090.html New Orleans Austin El Paso and Santa Fe.Day 14 Monday30.03.09Morning arrived in New Orleans too late for free pancakes but just early enough to go and experience some culture. Gaz who we has sat chatting to the night before had learnt of a specific place in New Orleans that suffered from the most devastation when hit by hurricane Katrina and the signs of devastation are still there today 4 ye http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Louisiana/New-Orleans/blog-388542.html Day One Monday23.03.09Sohellipas you might remember from my incredibly long last blog we are in Gainesville. I woke up to a bag of dirty pants lovely so I knew that chore was ahead of me in fact I think I chose to class that as my official Zen Hostel chore not what you call beneficial to others but it was such a laborious task I didnrsquot care. I did however make use of a birthday pres http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Florida/Gainesville/blog-387107.html Hi Yrsquoall. So Irsquove decided to write my own crude version of a travel blog. Obviously it wonrsquot be as good as Gemrsquos but hopefully it will sufficiently keep you all up to date to what wersquore getting up to. Thank you Emma for the travel journal without that none of this could be possible Writing inspirations Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher in Murder She wrote. Week http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Florida/Miami-Beach/blog-385077.html