Category: Travel
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Friday 3 December 1999 Highlights: The Alamo, Garden River at night. Today we visited the world famous Alamo. We learned about its long history as a missionary it’s major role in the Texas / Mexican War of Independence. The Texas force was outnumbered 6 to 1 but held on for 13 days. This battle ended…
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Thursday 2 December 1999 Highlights: Garden River Today was decision day, either get a car or get a travel pass to travel around the USA. after checking prices we went for the Greyhound America Pass which at $479 each for three months was great value. While this took most of the day we did visit…
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Wednesday 1 December 1999 Highlights: JFK Sixth Floor Museum. We could not get the AAA membership today so it felt like we wasted a bit of time trying to organise this and purchase of a car. We did however do a lot of walking around Dallas to take in the sites. We visited the excellent…
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Tuesday 30 November 1999 Highlights: Air conditioning, friendly Texans We spent the day trying to organise a car for our trip around USA. The day didn’t start well when we overslept which I’m putting down to the time zone difference not being lazy but I guess we will see. Unfortunately the car insurance information haven’t…
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Monday 29 November 1999 Highlights: Making it to Dallas Sleeping last night proved to be very different when we had two women next door fighting and crying over having to travel together which kept both Jon and myself up for most of the night before our alarms went off at 4.30 am. I felt like…
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Sunday 28 November 1999 Highlights: None. Today proved that we had stayed too long in Hawaii. Unless you are a total tourist interested in the tourist traps or lying on the beach then there isn’t that much to do. We probably should have looked at visiting one of the smaller island and going snorkelling. We…
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Saturday 27 November 1999 Highlights: Polynesian Cultural Centre We returned to the USS Arizona Memorial hopeful for catching the main presentation but were given tickets for 3 1/2 hours later, very frustrating :(. We gave up on the Arizona which is a shame. We than caught the bus to the North Sore of the island.…
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Friday 26 November 1999 Highlights: USS Arizona Memorial, State Capitol, Holiday Parade I bought a cap which should make my sister Kara happy after her concerns with the sunburn I got in New Zealand. Unfortunately today was about setbacks. We walked down the Waikiki beach and shopping area which confirmed that this is only about…
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Friday 26 November 1999 Highlights: International flight. We left Auckland behind as we began our journey to the USA part of of trip for 64 days starting in Honolulu and ending in Los Angeles on Australia Day 26 January 2000. The first surprise today was the departure tax. I wonder if I while ever get…
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Thursday 25 November 1999 Highlights: Miscalculating taxi ride resulting in walking 6 kilometres to hostel. We got up early at 5.30 am and went to the Christchurch Airport to try and score a standby ticket. We eventually got one but it costs about $195 NZD which was move then then we originally planned. At 10.40…
