Blogs from United States, North America - page 6862

Starting out the overseas trip traveling in a minivan covering 2000 miles from Florida to Boston while watching the 70’s show on the computer with plugs and chords coming out of any possible outlet, driving into the city that never sleeps at 12:30 a.m., following a map choosing the “quickest” and mostly wrong route, seeing the famous landmark that immigrants first see entering the US, driving up and around through the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, walking around the US capitol for a meet with Bush at the White House and ending with some much deserved drinks in Boston.... read more

07h00 - Pequeno almoço a começar a ser servido. "BREAAAAAAKFAST" - gritava o Jasper (que na última noite tinha dado um show de rap que só visto). Levantei-me e lá fui comer à pressa uns ovos mexidos com bacon e umas hashbrowns, com um café bem forte para acordar. Tudo coisas muito saudáveis... ;) Partíamos por volta das 8 e era preciso arrumar as tendas e os sacos, porque não iríamos voltar a este acampamento. 08h30 - Tudo arrumado. Agora só nos faltava atestar os jeeps de gasolina com os bidons que nos deram para seguirmos viagem. Os 3 tugas reservaram logo um jeep e seguiram juntos, revezando-se ao volante. Foi uma viagem sem peripécias, mas sempre acompanhada por uma paisagem espectacular. 10h00 - Chegados à margem do Rio Colorado onde estavam os barcos de rafting, ... read more

Standing outside the only bar crazy enough to stay open during a hurricane, beer in hand fighting the 130 km/hr winds blowing sand, rain and trees, right on da beach! Then back to the hostel for beers, drinking games, wet as and no power! I planned to stay 1 night in Fort Lauderdale but ended up staying a week! On the bus from Key west I met Forest from Texas and he planned on going back home to Houston but decided to stay, so we went to the hostel. ( which was a pretty sweet hostel) There was a heap a girls from camp Chipinaw (Rach's & Allies camp) stayin as well (aussies, kiwis & poms). Barby's by the pool, out on the town partyin every night, a tone of fun, sup gals good times, I ... read more

Today we went to Half Moon Bay, which is a town about 30 minutes from where Gay lives. We had lunch, went downtown to some shops, then hit a nursery on the way back. I’ll let the pictures do the rest of the talking! Tres... read more

Spent a week in Columbia, MO before heading west. Alan had one more eye doctor visit and he got the OK to travel to higher elevations (yeah!) Columbia is home to the University of Missouri, so it was a typical college town. We drove north a bit to see an Amish farm community where we bought homemade pickles and apple butter (very inexpensive). There was a sign at the end of the unpaved road indicating that the 1st house on the right had apple butter for sale, so we just walked up to the house and went into the open back porch where the lady of the house came out to sell her wares. A very simple life! We saw an operating sawmill, farmers bringing in their corn on horse-drawn wagons, and a precious little girl ... read more