View from the Capitol hill

On the road again

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March 28th 2016
Geo: 47.6353, -122.302Time to bid farewell to the Arlington Club, to Portland and to Oregon as we headed north to Seattle. Sadly our plan to explore some of the coast were wildly optimistic in terms of time and distance so we had to rethink. We decided to visit Olympia, capital of Washington state. It always comes as a surprise to slightly dim Brits like me that the capital of a state is often n ... read more

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Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more