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Day 11 - Back to Seattle and Gumbo!

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July 26th 2009
Day 11 - Sunday 10am - After a good nights sleep and breakfast at the Motel, we made our way back from the Bluegrass Festival. We decided to stop in at the Bonneville Dam visitors centre as part of the "educational" part of our trip! We were just in time for a short tour of the dam with one of the rangers, Danielle. She gave us a great tour and took us through the dam turbine room and explai ... 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