Blogs from United States, North America - page 6884

Well, here we are on our very last day. Feeling a bit apprehensive about coming home; especially after all the news we’ve been hearing. Really loved Boston and have been staying at a great hostel right in the centre of the city. Karl managed to squeeze in a final game of baseball (the Red Sox, at Fenway Park) and I dragged him to a brilliant production of Hamlet on the common last night (with real thunder & lightning). Niagara Falls completed our ‘World Waterfall Tour’ pretty spectacularly. Next stop was Cooperstown, New York for the Baseball Hall of Fame - or sunbathing by the lake in my case. We then visited some great beach towns like Newport, Rhode Island, Cape Cod & Martha’s Vineyard, where we splashed out on lobster to celebrate completing our 6500 mile ... read more

The next morning I woke up to Bryan's cheery voice saying he was on the ferry and on his way to Seattle. I got up and got ready just in time for him to pick me up. It was raining, which just made me feel that I was truely experiencing Seattle. I also enjoyed the cool air since it had been in the high ninties and hundreds for the past few weeks in SLC. We drove around looking for a place to eat breakfast and saw more of Seattle in the daylight. All the while chatting and catching up. We wondered around Pike's Place Market and had a snack at a Thai/Morroccan Restaurant.Bryan wanted me to see the new modern city library. We wandered around admiring the arcitecure and "modernness" of the colors and design. Ian ... read more

“I can change the world, with my own 2 hands! Make a better place, oh with my own 2 hands, with my own, with my own 2 hands!” A couple of thousand people with both hands in the air singing along, holy shit this concert was awesome!! After a full on week @ camp me n Ying (1 of the US staff) drove to Royal Oak a nicer suburb of Detroit. The Royal Oak music theater is an old school theater with big high ceilings, balcony, seating and plenty of standing room. When we got there a guy called Tim Freud was playing and he was pretty good. I went to get a beer from 1 of the downstairs bars and had to wait 15 mins to get it and it was my first one so ... read more

I woke up at seven with Brea and we are playing SORRY! on the computer. Everyone else got up around 9 and Roy made cheese omelets and bacon and we shared our breakfast muffins. We all had a chance to havce a hot shower, which was awesome, considering we hadn't showered since Friday night before we left! Nikki fought with Dot over food and Dot wouldn't even come out to me, if Nikki was by me. They got over it eventually though. We drove to Mt. Rainier N.P. hoping to camp at the White River Campground, but it was disgustingly full. We drove out and are now camped in Mount Baker and Snoqualamie N.F. Grantwood is 15 miles north of here which is good, we need gas badly. Mt. Rainier N.P. was breathtaking. The trees are ... read more

If you've received multiple 'notification' emails, my apologies. I'm trying to post two entries in one day, and somehow I botched it. I'm posting this one under the 21st, even though today is the 20th. The reason for two entries, well yesterday marked the end of the North American portion of our trip. Some numbers: * Number of countries: 2 (US and Canada) * Number of states (including DC): 20 (CA, NV, AZ, UT, CO, NE, IA, IL, IN, OH, PA, NY, NJ, DE, MD, DC, VA, NC, SC, GA) * Number of state capitals: 4 (or 5) (Denver, Lincoln, De Moines, Trenton (close), Atlanta * Number of great lakes in view: 3 (Michigan, Erie, Ontario) * Number of interstates that we drove on (2 digit): 16 (I-10, I-15, 70, 76, 80, 86, 88, 90, 94, ... read more