Category: Travel
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Saturday 25 December 1999 Highlights: Traditional American Christmas Dinner Christmas Day 1999 and my first ever away from my family, I wonder how many times I’ll be away from family and friends for future Christmas Days (well I had Jon here this Christmas). It felt very un-Christmas like with no presents, no hot sunny day…
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Friday 24 December 1999 Highlights: Rest Day, New York City Library Christmas Eve was a necessary rest and cleaning clothes day hanging out at the YHA New York City Hostel. Watching television it became very clear that people are becoming increasingly worried about terrorist acts in Times Square for New Year’s Eve. Talk that some…
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Thursday 23 December 1999 Highlights: State of Liberty, Ice-Skating at Rockefeller Centre Today I got to climb the Statue of Liberty. We had to get up very early to ensure access but given we were in a room with 12 others sleeping in wasn’t really an option anyway 🙂 While the view from the top…
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Wednesday 22 December 1999 Highlights: Walking around downtown Manhattan An incredibly cold USA winter day of around 2 degrees. First good news was our stay at the YHA Hostel has now been extended to 29 December, so New Year’s Eve in New York City is starting to look possible. Visited Downtown Manhattan for the first…
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Tuesday 21 December 1999 Highlights: The White House, Arriving in New York City We visited the White House today, lining up for about 2 hours standing next to this neo-Nazi Canadian (I know hard to imagine). I did caused my own security scare when I accidentally bought a bottle of sauce into the White House.…
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Monday 20 December 1999 Highlights: Visiting FBI, USA Capitol Building, USA Holocaust Museum Today was a welcome to the very cold north of USA. We left the hostel early around 8.40 am to visit the FBI building. The tour was fantastic and covered the history of the FBI, how they gather evidence, training requirements and…
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Sunday 19 December 1999 Highlights: 19 hour bus trip concludes, Attending a Professional Wrestling Pay for View Event (WCW Starcade) We arrived in Washington at 7 am after a 19 hour bus trip on Greyhound. How we are going to survive the 24 hour bus ride next month I don’t know!
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Saturday 18 December 1999 Highlights: Commencing the long bus trip to Washington We had problems selling the fourth day Disney Ticket, in the end we had to settle for $25 instead of the hoped for $30. Before the next bus ride we used the free internet access at the public library to catch up with…
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Friday 17 December 1999 Highlights: Buzz Lightyear (Magic Kingdom), Shuttle launch postponed 😦 A very overcast morning so the launch wasn’t looking very good. However we still hoping for luck when we set of to the Magic Kingdom. I think I found today I am too old for Disney’s Magic Kingdom as I found it…
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Thursday 16 December 1999 Highlights: Rain I did a little shopping today after finally getting some sleep after a big night. I walked down to the factory outlets and visited the Nike store. I ended up purchasing a raincoat, Nike cap and gloves. These should help in the colder climates up north. Unfortunately the shuttle…
