Blogs from United States, North America - page 6512

It was a beautiful sunrise on the ocean as we sailed along the coast of Kauai and into the small quiet harbour of Nawiliwili this morning. This northern island is the most tropical and diverse of all the islands. We look forward to exploring and searching where Captain Cook has gone before. As our journey continues each day brings more beauty and more fancy rum drinks with umbrellas.... read more

Washington, DC American capital, chocolate city, marshmallow center, insensitive governance, brick, Embassy central, the grid, too many suits, metro, sweatin' humidity, Natties, Redskins DC. DC. DC.. DC... DC ......Dark City. Dense Center.. Drug Culture. Driving Circles.. Detailed Corruption. Doles & Clintons.. Drunk Collegiates. Doctored Constitution.. Dick Cheney.......... New York City Big Apple, "City that never sleeps", bums, Wall Street Jews, hipsters, subway trash, tall buildings that hurt your neck, hi-style sexuality, $8 beers, taxiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii... read more

Shay here, from a hotel room in Missoula, MT. We are relaxing in relative luxury for a night before heading up to Glacier tomorrow. We have to drop the dogs off for a stay at a kennel, since they are not allowed in the park. They are not excited about it, as is evidenced by the fact that they are both pouting on the hotel room floor. I think they can smell the bath water coming, kind of like how you can smell a big storm blowing in on the wind. Sorry we haven't been keeping up with the blog. It's been great getting to see family and friends for the past few weeks, but it doesn't give us much time to log in and upload pics and stuff. And then there was the little mishap ... read more

It's been incredibly hot on this side of the pond as well. The headline in the paper a few days back read "New York Sizzles', with daytime temperatures over 100 degrees and steamy nights in noisily air conditioned rooms; the kind of temperature as one New Yorker put it in which people start murdering one another! Fortunately nothing like that, although a cab driver lost his cool and left us momentarily marooned in a midtown traffic snarl up while he ran off in desperate search for a cold drink. Toby and I went to see USS Intrepid, a WW2 carrier now moored on the Hudson and the deck plates were so hot you could have fried an egg on them. Despite this we spent 2 days pounding the sidewalks of downtown and midtown and encountering curious ... read more

Today was a very sobering experience as I visited the USS Arizona memorial in Pearl Habour it struck me as a little surreal but something about the place seemed very detached from what happened there, I can't actually put my finger on it maybe it was because I was British but when I think of the Killing Fields in Cambodia and the vivid reality of that I feel like there is some emotional connection missing in this memorial site. I must admit it felt strange and of course the names on the memorial are astonishing to look at as so many people perished on one vessel in such a quick period of time. The actual memorial site is a really peaceful place and thnakfully most people can observe the rules about being quiet whilst on this ... read more