Tag: USA
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Tuesday 27 November 2012 Highlights: Shopping at the Manhattan Mall The last full day in New York City and it decides to rain. Actually this showed just how lucky we have been to this point as the days outside have all been fine. As a result of the bad weather is we decided not to…
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Monday 26 November 2012 Highlights: Disney and M&M Shopping, Phantom of the Opera After the long and memorable day seeing the sights of New York (Part 1) the late afternoon was spent shopping in Times Square and waiting for our Broadway Show “The Phantom of the Opera”. Mum wasn’t really up to walking back to…
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Monday 26 November 2012 Highlights: Central Park, Statue of Liberty, Rockefeller Centre, New York Stock Exchange, World Trade Centre Today we scheduled a tour of New York City. Starting with a excellent breakfast at the hotel (I’m going to miss this luxury when I get to Central America) we walked from 28th Street to 51st…
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Sunday 25 November 2012 Highlights: Bus ride to New York City, Times Square Another good breakfast a the grand Capital Hilton and mum and myself took off to walk the 2.8 km to the Washington Deluxe Bus departure location at DuPont Circle. After a short distance we worked out it was better for me to…
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Saturday 24 November 2012 Highlights: Smithsonian Air and Space Museum One of the great aspects about Washington DC is the Smithsonian Museums which total over 15 and are free to the public. So of the great artworks and discoveries open for everyone to see these treasures. This is an open society at its best celebrating…
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Friday 23 November 2012 Highlights: US Capitol Building, Washington Monument, World War II Memorial, FDR Memorial, Vietnam Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, Korean Memorial, Marine Corps Memorial (Iwo Jima), The White House, Thomas Jefferson Monument An awesome day going on a tour around Washington DC with my mum. I had been to the USA capital before so…
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Thursday 22 November 2012 Highlights: Showering in the Admirals Lounge, Hilton Capital room upgrade How do people handle multiple flights over 30 hours without lounge access? I arrived in Miami very early in the morning with a 7 hour layover before the next 2 USA domestic flights. The Admirals Lounge meant a shower, a change…
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Wednesday 21 November 2012 Highlights: Business class flight to Miami With my flight out of Buenos Aires now confirmed at 9.15 pm tonight I was more optimistic that everything will work and I’ll be in Washington late tomorrow night after 4 flights. This meant today I could actually have the included breakfast. During the morning…
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Sunday 12 June 2011 Highlights: Walking around Anchorage, In-flight Internet access Last day of the trip with any non travel activities. Woke up with the news that flights into Melbourne have stopped and face major disruptions due to South American volcano from last week, I’ll see if That causes any problems tomorrow. First up it…
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Saturday 11 June 2011 Highlights: Boat Plane Flight, Black Bear close up The last major event of the trip, a flight to Redoubt Bay to check out the local wildlife. This started with my first ever ‘float’ or boat flight. Redoubt Bay can only be rested by air or boat, or in this case both!…
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