Blogs from United States, North America - page 5575

Dimanche 4 novembre (jour 55). Départ de Great Bridge à l’aube car nous sommes légèrement en retard sur notre itinéraire. L’ouragan Noël nous a cloué 3 jours à cet endroit. Nous rattrapons le temps perdu avec de longues journées de navigations. Il fait beaucoup plus froid!!!. Disons que ça donne le goût de descendre au sud le plus rapidement possible! On atteint Beaufort en Caroline du Nord mercredi le 7 novembre (jour 58) avec nos tuques et mitaines. Ça fait drôle de voir nos premiers palmiers. Beaufort est situé tout près de l’océan. Plusieurs prennent la mer à partir d’ici. Nous avons fait la rencontre d’un couple super sympathique qui se préparait pour cet aventure…ils nous ont invités avec born free 3 à prendre l’apéro sur leur superbe bateau de 55 pieds. De toute beauté!!!! Notre ... read more

Sitting in an entrance to the Educational Learning Center here at Reed College, I've found a nice empty iMAC to write this little ditty. The last 24 hours has beena hoorah of collegiate observation. Beginning yesterday morning at 8AM I met Gabe, Laey's coworker, who attends Lewis and Clark. It worked out incredbily well as I wanted to bicycle down to L&C, and didn't know how to get there at all as it was far far away. Prompting my visit to L&C was Tace, a girl a grade below me from Fairfield who I was acquainted with. The ride was cold; the rain had quit though, yet the fog was bearing down on us suffusing me with moisture. I met Gabe in the middle of downtown and I followed right behind him along the bike routes. ... read more

The final stop on our trip was New York. We said farewell to the UK early on the 21st of November, after a panic getting to the airport when our organised taxi didn’t turn up. We still made it on time though, and we had a relaxing flight to JFK. After manoeuvring the confusing subway with our luggage, we arrived at our hotel in Greenwich Village (lower central Manhattan) about lunchtime. Keen to see the city, we spent the afternoon looking around Macy’s (the biggest store in the world), Times Square, the Empire State building, and the Chrysler building. In the evening we had a traditional American dinner of McDonalds so we could see if the serving sizes really were as big as everyone says the are. We weren’t disappointed. After dinner we walked to Bryant ... read more

Vendredi 16 novembre Charleston à Parrot Creek (ICW 521.5) À partir de Charleston, 2 options s’offraient à nous. La première prendre l’ICW jusqu'à Fernandina Beach (Floride) en passant par la Georgie en 4 jours. La Georgie est reconnu pour c’est nombreux hauts-fonds et son eau peu profonde, car cette partie de l’ICW n’est plus entretenue depuis plusieurs années fautes de budget de l’état. où Prendre la mer de Charleston à Fernandina Beach, une navigation de 24 heures à environ 3 milles de la côte est américaine. Nous avons décidé d’y aller avec la Georgie et qu’à notre retour nous prendrons la mer et en plus nous serons poussés par le Gulf Stream. En conclusion, la Georgie est un plan d’eau à découvrir. Et à tous ceux qui nous ont dit qu’il y avait -de 5 ... read more

Set out for Orlando the following day and as usual, the journey took us a little longer than it would take normal people. Got to the hotel eventually though, which was a bit of a shock - my mum appeared to have booked us into the gayest hotel in the world. I can't upload photos at the moment, but it was a big pink castle. To reassert my masculinity, I picked a fight with David as soon as we got in the room, forgetting he was bigger than me. That afternoon was spent putting my camera in to be fixed (yay!) and losing to my dad at mini golf (boo!). The next day we took a trip to Islands of Adventure, in my opinion the best of Orlando's famous theme parks. I'd been once before 5 ... read more