Category: Travel
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Wednesday 12 January 2000 Highlights: Mt Rushmore, Custer Park. We managed to visit Mt Rushmore today, it only took a taxi ride to Stargis, a bus ride to Rapid City and a short term car rental to get there. Driving in the USA takes some getting used to (right side of the road) but I…
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Tuesday 11 January 2000 Highlights: Visiting graves of Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Today we visited the historic sites of Deadwood. But first the locals greet us as we walked around the small town. This was surprising but apparently getting to Australians in town was news, we must have made an impression playing blackjack last…
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Monday 10 January 2000 Highlights: Wild West Gambling! After 25.5 hours of travelling, five bus changes, three bus companies, two time zone changes and a cab ride we arrived at Deadwood and our hotel (no hostel stay this time). South Dakota is basically very bare and dusty. Wind storms were very evident. However Deadwood itself…
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Sunday 9 January 2000 Highlights: Birthday Present (LOL) We left our terrible Hostel and killed time walking around the city. As it was my birthday Jon splashed out and got me a Burger King Meal! We spent a while at the public library using the free internet before catching the first bus on what would…
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Saturday 8 January 2000 Highlights: Art Institute of Chicago, ‘Second City’ comedy club After our extremely long day yesterday (little sleep on the bus) we slept in to about 1 pm, which due to the time zone change felt like noon. There isn’t a great deal to do in Chicago during the day unless Museums…
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Friday 7 January 2000 Highlights: Jazz and Blues music, the view from the Sears Tower Leaving last night from Buffalo we arrived in Chicago around 10.30 am. Today marks the half way point of the trip. We ended up staying at the Arlington House Hostel which turned out to be a real dump. It took…
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Thursday 6 January 2000 Highlights: The stunning Niagara Falls. Today we set off for the beautiful and stunning Niagara Falls. The Falls actually divides Canada and the USA which meant my first ever visit to Canada happened today! You can see the Falls from both sides but the Canadian side offers the most magnificent views…
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Wednesday 5 January 2000 Highlights: Free falling snow!! The bus arrived at 7.15 am, surviving another overnight bus trip we found out we couldn’t check in to the hostel until 3 pm 😦 This gave us a chance to explore Buffalo. The major Mall bans anyone under 18 during the weekday, hard to imagine this…
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Tuesday 4 January 2000 Highlights: Cambridge University, Harvard Museum of Natural History. Early in the morning we went up to Harvard and visited the world famous Cambridge University. The University is enormous and the buildings date back into the 1720s. The whole area is alive with young people returning to their studies after the Christmas…
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Monday 3 January 2000 Highlights: Boston Freedom Trail, Boston Common, State House, Granary Burial Ground, USS Constitution, NBA Game (Boston Celtics v Clevelands Cavaliers) I had the best nights sleep in weeks, finally other guests with manners. Apparently Jon, in the mixed room, again struggled to sleep with all the noise, so much for his…
