Washington DC, United States

En Route

Flight to Washington took off to the unhappy screams of a four year old boy, who kept wailing he did not want to fly, and why can't we go by bus? It looked like a long trip to Orlando and Disneyworld for his parents but a few minutes later he was happily chirping that he loved to fly. Saw the...

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Round the World 2009-2010 on February 19, 2009 from Washington, United States

from the travel blog: Round the World 2009-2010

Kevin and Ben's Eight Month Around the World Trip!

Dear Friends and Family: After one year of research and planning, Ben and I are finally embarking on our eight month around the world backpacking trip on March 14, 2009! For those of you new to our travel plans, we’re taking the rest of the year off to explore, work, read, volunteer,...

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Kevin Naughton on February 17, 2009 from Washington, United States

from the travel blog: Around the World 2009

Washington DC

To make my travels around the country easier and cheaper, I purchased an AMTRAK card, which gave me unlimited train travel on the national rail network. These trains are very comfortable but are also incredibly slow and never arrive on time. Fortunately I had some books and my MP3 player to keep...

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niklasbergstrand on January 16, 2009 from Washington, United States

from the travel blog: Niklas in America

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Kevin Naughton on December 4, 2008 from Washington, United States

from the travel blog: Around-the-World 2009

The Rabbi who was all too familiar!

So for our last day in Washington we decided we would go watch the game where we were joined by a guy from Barnsley AKA the Rabbi...this due tohis liking for falsely adding random titles to his application for anything! So we spent the day watching footy in an Irish bar, where it dawned on me...

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Ruck2905 on October 20, 2008 from Washington, United States

from the travel blog: Coast to coast USA baby!!

Foggy Bottom

After a day of doing nothing apart from shop (or play pool in a bar for an hour, Sunil will tell u he won every game but its not true) and drink in the basement we decided to go and do some sightseeing! So we managed to the leave the hostel before midday for once and decided to go to the natural...

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Ruck2905 on October 18, 2008 from Washington, United States

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The Whitehouse, the debate and the hillbilly I forgot!

Ok so Im gonna start this entry by telling you about the Hillbilly in Baltimore that I forgot to mention! So me Sunil and Chris(an english guy we met in Philly) were just hanging out in the lounge watching baseball when a guy comes down to join us...his first words consisted of 'what are you...

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Ruck2905 on October 16, 2008 from Washington, United States

from the travel blog: Coast to coast USA baby!!

Escape from Baltimore

So escaping from Baltimore was priority...it was just sooo quiet, so after filling up on a pancake breakfast we made a break for the train station! It took only 40 minsto get to washington, and as soon as we got into the train station we saw that the station alone is bigger than Baltimore...we...

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Ruck2905 on October 15, 2008 from Washington, United States

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Day 21: Reflections

Booster, Justine and I started our day early attempting to get in to the US Capitol building. Turns out, they aren't open on Sundays so we instead walked over to the US Botanical Garden which according to green thumbed Justine is the best in the world. I believe her. It was beautiful,...

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JRadhirsch on September 21, 2008 from Washington, United States

from the travel blog: The Great American Road Trip

Days 20: Reunited and it feels so good

On the long drive the night before I had time to reflect on what I got out of driving 3 weeks cross country on my own. Needless to say, I'm glad that I had the opportunity to do so and am so grateful to Justine for understanding why I wanted to do this and not allowing it to become a wedge...

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JRadhirsch on September 20, 2008 from Washington, United States

from the travel blog: The Great American Road Trip

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