A damp start to Day 4 as we need off to the Budweiser Brewery before a 4 your drive to Kansas under the USAs heatdome!!!!
Ian.
Travels
Postcard from America: Day 3 – Oh My Goodness Oh My Goodness
Today we left Columbus and headed to St Louis. With a motel booked we decided to go eat after our drive via Indianapolis and boy oh boy was that an experience. I’m sure I’ll never eat ribs as good as the ones I had in Pappy’s Smokehouse.
Annoyingly while driving through Indianapolis I missed the chance to capture a drive by photo of the Colts stadium. Then we’re sure we see a corpse in a tarpaulin left on the I70 on our drive to St Louis.
Only trouble we’re having is paying for gas as the pumps demand a cup code for authorising the cars and the other option is to prepay but as yet we’ve no idea how much fuel we need to fill up and with gas prices getting by as much as 30c a gallon even if we knew how much we needed working that into dollars accurately is not easy. Adelded to this each time the attempt to pay at the pump fails my credit card gets locked. The immediate solution is to pre-pay in $10 blocks which costs is extra time.
Ian.
Postcard from America: Day 2- Hey ballers
After a quick breakfast at Friendleys we headed west to Ohio and the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Initial thoughts were that it was a bit may and not much was on display but that was a misconception as the place was Tardis like. A great day out was had by me and I don’t think Louise was too bored either.
Overnight in Columbus was disappointing though as we had too little time because of the blasted satnav in the Hyundai Genesis which was about as useful as a chocolate fireguard. Sadly our late arrival in Columbus resulted in me missing out on dining at Schmidt’s Sausauge Haus 😠.
Ian.
Postcard from America: Day 2 – Good Morning America
The start of our second day here in the USA and a picture of our chariot for our roadtrip outside our first night’s resting place, Red Roof Motel, Danville, PA. Today we’re heading to Akron,Ohio and the American Football Hall of Fame.
Ian.
Postcard from America: Day 1 The Eagle Has Landed
Landed safely in the USA didn’t get a Ford for a Hyundai😠 still a very nice car but wanted something by American not an import. Getting to Danville is proving to be a bigger adventure than I hoped not least because it took 3 hours to get out of NYC. Hoping for clearer roads from this point on.
Postcard from America: Day 1 Manchester Airport
Through traffic on M60 & check-in drama as apparently you need an address for your first night in the USA. Hotel.com app on the phone to the rescue. Now to the plane, which is already 1 your beg me schedule. Hey go who cares when you’re in holiday?
I’m So Excited!
With just 9 days left to go before my wife and I set off to New York for our 25th Anniversary USA Road Trip I’m getting both excited and nervous. My biggest concern is the car hire, if that goes wrong the whole trip goes up in smoke but I’m sure that won’t happen, right? At least if the agent I have used lets me down, we have a credit card and if that fails me Id have had bigger problems with the trip anyway. I’m hoping to sneak an upgrade from the Ford Taurus to 
something a bot more sporty but if I can’t make that happen the Taurus is a very good second place and for our length of trip probably more comfortable anyway.
The next worry is my health, I’ve been relatively healthy since coming off of the night shift working pattern until April when I lost half a tooth eating a pizza and have spent the last 3 months trying to get it sorted, that is now bodged by my dentist who has put a short term filling in which I’m hoping will last closer to the 2 years he estimates and not the 2 weeks that I fear. Then last Thursday evening I started to come down with a cold and that has now kicked in and I can barely speak as doing so makes me cough my lungs up like I used to before I gave up smoking some 9 years ago, yes folks it was really that long ago I gave up the even weed, not THAT WEED, I meant tobacco which apart from alcohol and adreneline is the hardest drug I’ve ever consumed, yep I’m a real life party pooper.
Anyways that me just sharing my immediate thoughts prior to me embarking on a day of world class sport watching and hoping that 2 out of 3 will give victory to 2 British sportsmen (Lewis Hamiltoin and Andrew Murray) and having to suck up to the French as Id rather see them win Euro 2016 than the Portuguese.
Have fun folks 🙂
Day 24 – The Plan
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| Day 24 | New York, NY to New York (JFK) | https://goo.gl/g5023M |
| Day 24 | New York (JFK) to Manchester (MAN) | https://goo.gl/OiIx4H |
Links to Points of Interest
- The Empire State Building is a 102-story skyscraper located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on Fifth Avenue between West 33rd and 34th Streets
- The Chrysler Building is an Art Deco-style skyscraper located on the East Side of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, at the intersection of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue in the Turtle Bay neighborhood.
- https://www.nps.gov/stli/index.htm Liberty Island home of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, in Upper New York Bay, was the gateway for over 12 million immigrants to the United States as the nation’s busiest immigrant inspection station from 1892 until 1954
- Manhattan’s Chinatown is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City, bordering the Lower East Side to its east, Little Italy to its north, Civic Center to its south, and Tribeca to its west.
Day 23 – The Plan
01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 |
| Day 23 | Washington, DC to New York, NY | https://goo.gl/V1AzBv |
Links to Points of Interest
- The Empire State Building is a 102-story skyscraper located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on Fifth Avenue between West 33rd and 34th Streets
- The Chrysler Building is an Art Deco-style skyscraper located on the East Side of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, at the intersection of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue in the Turtle Bay neighborhood.
- https://www.nps.gov/stli/index.htm Liberty Island home of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, in Upper New York Bay, was the gateway for over 12 million immigrants to the United States as the nation’s busiest immigrant inspection station from 1892 until 1954
- Manhattan’s Chinatown is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City, bordering the Lower East Side to its east, Little Italy to its north, Civic Center to its south, and Tribeca to its west.
Day 22 – The Plan
01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 |
| Day 22 | Washington, DC to 0 x | Sightseeing |
Links to Points of Interest
- National World War II Memorial, which features two 43-foot arches, a 17-foot pillar for each state and a field of 4,000 gold stars. If you want to honor local World War I participants, stop by the nearby DC War Memorial, one of the Mall’s hidden gems.
- President Lincoln’s Cottage reveals the distinctly domestic side of a historic presidency.
- Library of Congress‘ the world’s biggest library!
- National Archives Read the original Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights at the National Archives, then research your family’s immigration records.
- Visit Arlington National Cemetery to see the Changing of the Guard ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns. The ceremony is held every hour on the hour from Oct. 1-March 31, and every half hour from April 1-Sept. 30.
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial, designed by sculptor Maya Lin. Etched into the memorial’s wall are 58,307 names of those who died or were lost, all appearing in chronological order.
- the National Portrait Gallery, marvel at the nation’s only complete collection of presidential portraits outside The White House.
- Tudor Place Historic House and Garden, a Federal-style home in Georgetown that belonged to Martha Washington’s gradduaghter. Experience local history through the museum’s exhibits covering six generations of families who lived in the home, and marvel at the more than 200 artifacts related to George and Martha Washington.
- National Mall besides well-known landmarks like the Washington Monument, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial and Lincoln Memorial, the National Mall also features some 60-plus under-the-radar monuments and memorials.
- Smithsonian Institution Building, aka The Castle – one of the many public (and air conditioned!) sites that doubles as a free Wi-Fi hot spot.
Day 21 – The Plan
01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 |
| Day 21 | Wytheville, VA to Washington, DC | https://goo.gl/ovyUTd |
Links to Points of Interest
- National World War II Memorial, which features two 43-foot arches, a 17-foot pillar for each state and a field of 4,000 gold stars. If you want to honor local World War I participants, stop by the nearby DC War Memorial, one of the Mall’s hidden gems.
- President Lincoln’s Cottage reveals the distinctly domestic side of a historic presidency.
- Library of Congress‘ the world’s biggest library!
- National Archives Read the original Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights at the National Archives, then research your family’s immigration records.
- Visit Arlington National Cemetery to see the Changing of the Guard ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns. The ceremony is held every hour on the hour from Oct. 1-March 31, and every half hour from April 1-Sept. 30.
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial, designed by sculptor Maya Lin. Etched into the memorial’s wall are 58,307 names of those who died or were lost, all appearing in chronological order.
- the National Portrait Gallery, marvel at the nation’s only complete collection of presidential portraits outside The White House.
- Tudor Place Historic House and Garden, a Federal-style home in Georgetown that belonged to Martha Washington’s gradduaghter. Experience local history through the museum’s exhibits covering six generations of families who lived in the home, and marvel at the more than 200 artifacts related to George and Martha Washington.
- National Mall besides well-known landmarks like the Washington Monument, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial and Lincoln Memorial, the National Mall also features some 60-plus under-the-radar monuments and memorials.
- Smithsonian Institution Building, aka The Castle – one of the many public (and air conditioned!) sites that doubles as a free Wi-Fi hot spot.
