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Day 29 - Aquarium of the Bay & Golden Gate Bridge

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September 28th 2011
After yesterday's exhaustive walk around Alcatraz, we decided that today ought to be a fairly relaxed one. Waking up at about 9:30am, we made no real attempt to rush ourselves to get ready, but ended up being washed, dressed and presentable by about 11:00am. During this time we also updated the blog for yesterday and loaded up Skype ready to talk to our families as we had previously arranged a ... read more

North America » United States » California » San Francisco

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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