Blogs from United States, North America - page 4764

Rapid City, South Dakota We see more of Rapid City this morning as we start our day's activities headed to the Black Hills. Rolling hills of different shapes, sizes, and colors blanket the countryside. It was nice to take a very relaxing morning morning before headeing out, though now running later than we had expected to get our tour stops in. No worries. We will see what we are able to see and leave the rest for other planning. Bear Country USA What a treat this was! For the most part, the animals here live in a pretty natural habitat for their particular species. You slowly drive through each area trying to heed the warning of the greeter to stay in your car and keep windows rolled up. There were warnings posted along the way as ... read more

I’m writing this at 10pm Tuesday night on the train from Washington DC to Atlanta, I’m currently 3 hours into a 14 hour journey. The trains here are great; you get around three times as much legroom as you would on a British train. The seats recline really far back and the foot rest comes out like a lazy boy. On Monday we caught the train to Washington DC. There's only one night in Washington so had a little wonder around all the government buildings and monuments. The White House is lot smaller than you’d imagine, whilst hanging around outside a line of cars (about 6 police cars and a people carrier with blacked out windows) came by and drove into the white house gate, but I couldn’t see inside to see who it was. Did ... read more

Saturday 27th September to Tuesday 30th September, 2007 I had every intention prior to my arrival in the United States of utillising what little spare time I was likely to have by exploring this vast country as much as possible. I still have those same intentions but as I perhaps should have expected a combination of other commitments allied to a ‘sod it, the sun’s shining, let’s go the beach’ have meant things haven't quite gone to plan. However, with Phil away for the weekend I was finally prepared myself for my first mini road trip. My intended destination was to be the seaside town of Santa Barbara, one hundred and twenty or so miles north of Long Beach, further north if time permitted via the renowned and ingeniously named Pacific Coast Highway and at just ... read more

soooooooooooooo, endlich gibt es mal wieder einen Eintrag! wurde auch Zeit! Habe jetzt auch meinen neuen Laptop und es war Liebe auf den ersten Blick! 450E fuer 2ghz ,2mb L2 Cache, 4gb Ram, 250gb Pladde, Vista Premium 64bit, und ne HD 2600 mit 512 mb RAM :) CSS laeuft mit 80-100 frames, also sehr gut :D Fangen wir mit dem Wochenende bevor dem letztem Wochenende an, haha :) Am Freitag sind wir zu ner Pary at Camillas House gegangen. Alles Southamericans, also Latinos etc. Sehr nice :) Wirklich viel war nicht los, haben getanzt, Salsa etc :) hatte hier zwischendruch auch mal nen Lehrgang mit Vollblutlatinas :) Die Junx haben sich gut abgeschossen, ich bin den Abend mal nuechtern geblieben. Zum Teil auch, weil ich Medizin fuer mein Ohr nehmen muss, ja es ist immer noch ... read more

Enjoyed a yummy cooked breakfast courtesy of Homewood Suites this morning before heading out for our day at the famous San Diego Zoo located in Balboa Park. Decided to take the narrated double-decked tram tour of the zoo first to get an idea of what's what which was very informative and probably saved our feet from a few miles of walking. First stop after that was the Panda's - and for the first time ever we got to see them awake and active. Every other time we have been to a zoo with Pandas all we got to see was their hairy butts, so this was a real bonus. These guys are very very cute, but they were not our favourites. This for me, the best were the Gorillas. The San Diego Zoo has a fairly ... read more