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So this morning we went to Great Falls near Washington to see a waterfall which was pretty impressive before heading to the airport. Then once I’d arrived and before I’d even checked in a delay was announced to my flight giving American a 100% delay record so far. Even Virgin trains usually beats that! Anyhow [...]

So the next day I went back into Washington DC, I was quite late up, so didn’t get in until lunchtime, but I still had time for two museums recommended the previous evening, first I tried to go up the Washington Monument, but then found to get tickets you had to queue before 8.30am when [...]

After New York I flew to Washington DC. However due to the plane being late it would have been quicker on the bus (and even though I only pay taxes probably cheaper too!). Once in Washington I got the metro to my mother cousins house where I was staying. The train was definitely nicer than [...]

After visiting the UN two days ago I headed up to the museum of modern art (MOMA). The first thing I saw was an exhibition on prototype buildings; unfortunately they were too prototype, the best one was made of cellophane and metal so you had to touch the metal regularly to discharge the static from [...]

So I got up at 7am yesterday morning to head down to the statue of liberty. Two days ago after I’d been to the 9/11 exhibition (which was very moving) I tried to go to the statue of liberty. Unfortunately it was 2pm so the tours for the day had all sold out. So I [...]

So last night I didn’t go to be early, but instead went up the Empire State building with a couple of people from my hostel. I got some really cool pictures of the New York skyline at night. Then this morning I walked up to Time Square, then got the subway to the bottom of [...]

After waiting for an hour to clear security, I picked up my waiting bag and caught the subway to the hostel. The train arrived promptly and thanks to the fact that new York subway trains don’t call at every stop we were soon in the centre of Manhatten. One thing I noticed about the subway [...]

Today I’ve been packing my rucksack for my trip as I’m leaving in only 36 hours now. I’ve had quite a lot of stuff to pack and my big rucksack and daysack are now full. Fortunately though the big rucksack only weighs 11.5kg at the moment which is well under the weight limit even for [...]