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  • PelancongAmericas Great Loop
    Hari 21–22

    Day 21: Reedville to Colonial Beach

    4 Mei, Amerika Serikat ⋅ 🌧 20 °C

    Preston fries the remainder of the 'hot' sausage and makes corn muffins for the crew. I fry my last-night left-over meatloaf from the restaurant. A rainy front passes and we wait for an hour. We untie as the rain subsides, and are under way by around 0915.

    It’ll be another day of ‘broadwater cruising’. Our course is back out into Chesapeake Bay with a left turn after Fleeton Point to take us up the 'coast' toward Smith Point before another left turn will admit us into the broad mouth of the Potomac River.

    It's worth considering some dimensions of Chesapeake Bay. It is the largest estuary in the US. Its drainage basin (166,534 sq km) covers portions of six states. Its width ranges from 4.5 to 30 km. Its 11,601 sq km of water are bordered by 18,804 km of shoreline, including tributaries.

    From the Smith Point lighthouse (now un-staffed, of course), which is about 3 miles offshore, we will run almost 50 miles up the Potomac to reach our tie-up for the night.

    The showers have stopped, the sky is clearer, and the wind has subsided as we make our way from the broad Potomac along the channel, dodging lobster pots, and into the super-sheltered Monroe Creek, where we tie up (with the aid of a couple of boaties who have noticed our arrival) at The Boathouse Marina.

    Graeme and Lorraine decide to foray into the town to see what's what, while I (deciding that I already know what 'towns' look like) walk a few blocks along the creek waterfront to the local craft brewery for a tasting rack and a bar meal.

    G & L have found a Thai restaurant while Preston is eating on the boat. I join him in the cockpit as the ducks and herons say goodnight. We'll be back here in 5 days' time.    Baca selengkapnya

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  • Retirement on 4 wheels
    Hari 333–337

    Washington DC

    29 April, Amerika Serikat ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C

    Uber und Metro brachten uns vom Lake Fairfax Park Campground direkt zur National Mall.
    Wir haben extra bequeme Schuhe angezogen im Wissen, dass heute Kilometer gemacht werden. Aber dass es am Schluss über 22 km werden, hätten wir nicht gedacht. Entsprechend müde waren wir am Abend.
    Besonders interessant war es, die kleinen und grösseren Proteste gegen die Regierung Trumps zu verfolgen und sich mit den Leuten zu unterhalten.
    Vor dem Weissen Haus blieb uns gerade noch Zeit für ein Photo, bevor uns die Polizei, zusammen mit all den anderen Touristen und Protestern aus dem Park scheuchte. Der Präsident hätte sich durch den Tumult gestört gefühlt!
    Viele Amerikaner schämen sich für ihre Regierung und sind besorgt wie andere Länder reagieren werden.
    Uns hat Washington DC gefallen: sauber, gepflegt und übersichtlich.
    Durch die hohe Polizeipräsenz fühlten wir uns auch sehr sicher.    Baca selengkapnya

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  • PelancongUSA XXL Teil 1
    1
    Hari 3–4

    X Tag

    24 April, Amerika Serikat ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C

    Der aufmerksame Leser wird das Fehlen von X Tag-1 bemerkt haben. Den gab es natürlich auch. Allerdings wie immer, am Tag vor der Abreise wird gepackt und bevor alles eingepackt ist, geht der Raum im Koffer aus. Ende vom Lied, der Rest wurde in Rucksack, Hüft- und Fototasche verstaut und ich seh jetzt wie eine zugehängte Reitschule aus 🥵
    Am Abend zuvor war ich noch beim Vietnamesen, sehr lecker, sehr günstig und es gab einen Glückskeks. Ich hatte jetzt sowas klischeehaftes wie "Sie gehen auf eine große Reise" erwartet, aber den Spruch den ich bekommen habe, nehme ich mal als gutes Omen, zu finden in den Bildern.
    Ok, Koffer war gepackt, Rucksack geschnürt und ich rechtschaffen Müde. Um 1.20 Uhr hab ich mich hingelegt und um 6 Uhr klingelte der Wecker. Da ich immer wieder aufgewacht bin, hatte ich das Gefühl nicht geschlafen zu haben. Allerdings gingen die 4 Stunden und 40 Minuten viel zu schnell rum, das eine oder andere Auge muß wohl auch mal geschlossen gewesen sein. Um 9 hat mein Bruder die zugehängte Reitschule abgeholt, um 10 am Flughafen abgesetzt, um 10.30 hab ich am Gate gesessen. Mist, Boarding ist ab 12.25, also noch Zeit absitzen, aber besser wie zu spät.
    Die 747-400 die dann ans Gate gerollt kommt, ist der gleiche Typ, aber nicht unser Flieger. Zu dem werden wir dann mit dem Bus gefahren, vereinzelt wurden schon Fragen im Bus laut, ob wir mit dem Bus nach Washington gefahren werden 😂 Irgendwann erreichen wir den Flieger, ich erklimme das Upperdeck (da wo früher die First war) und besetzte meinen Business Class Sitz. Rechte Seite zweite Reihe hinter dem Copilot. Nach dem Start beginnt das Gelage, mit kleinen Bonuszulagen (das fliegende Personal freut sich immer wieder mal über ne Packung Lindor 😉 Foodporn in den Bildern. Kurz vor dem Abendessen schweben wir über Kanada ein, schön aber wohl noch kalt. Kurz nach dem Abendessen wird mir noch ne Bottle Champus oder Wein fürs Hotelzimmer angeboten, aber ich lehne dankend ab. Ich schlepp mich jetzt schon tot.
    Wie zu erwarten wird die Einreise ein Fiasko. Gleichzeitig sind 5 Großraumflugzeuge angekommen und von 50 Schalter sind 9 besetzt. Meine Beamtin war total nett und hat mir viel Spaß gewünscht und ich soll vorsichtig fahren. Nach nur 2,5 Stunden Wartezeit bin ich auf amerikanischen Boden. Um 18.30 sammelt mich das Shuttle auf und bringt mich ins Hotel. Um für die kleine Cola nicht drei Dollar zu zahlen besuche ich den Supermarkt um die Ecke. Und was ist der erste Supermarkt den ich in USA besuche... ein Aldi 🙈
    Ich lasse den Abend mit Bizzelwasser mit Geschmack und ner Subway Stulle bei TV Hintergrundbeschallung ausklingen.    Baca selengkapnya

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  • PelancongAmericas Great Loop
    Hari 22–26

    Day 23: Washington DC

    5 Mei, Amerika Serikat ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C

    We're having a ball in DC, and we're now used to the jets coming and going over the river at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Our HO/HO bus tour yesterday was a great start and we want to finish the circuit today AND alight at Arlington National Cemetary. Graeme and Lorraine are contributing some great photographic material for the blog and for their Fb page, so I mostly concentrate on just looking at Washington DC. The various famous places in this city (e.g. White House, U.S. Capitol, Supreme Court Building, National Mall, Jefferson Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, and Washington Monument) are fairly well-known and easily able to be looked up online, so it's not my intention to provide all of that in the blog; more to provide a record of our experiences here.

    We have lunch at Washington's Union Station (in the process, locating the Claytor Concourse; see the photo included here and the document attached back at the Day 3 Footprint) and reboard the BigBus, on which we arrive at Arlington (along with about 20 tour-coach loads of school kids) and find that we're in time to take a guided tour that will enable us to see a changing of the guard at the Tomb Of The Unknown Soldier. Also, for me to locate George Westinghouse's grave (Sect 2, grave 3418). This tour is really a 'must-do', and you should look up the Changing of the Guard ceremony on YouTube. In summer (now) they change every 30 min and in the rest of the year it's every hour. The spectacle is pure Americana... part solemn and reverential and part theatrical. It really should not be missed. The tour includes Arlington House, with its history and view over the city.

    We conclude at Arlington, and take the Metro subway from the nearby station back into and through town. We have to change from the Blue to the Green line at L'enfant Plaza and do so, only to find there's a delay caused by 'someone on the road' (meaning track). The rush hour is piling onto the platform, so we take a quick vote and scarper up to the street, where I call up an Uber. Lorraine has previously secured three seats at the Nationals Park Baseball Stadium, as there's a week of major-league games in DC at the moment. We're going to see the Washington Nationals v The Cleveland Guardians (used to be The Indians). We arrive in time to hear--and see on a big screen--the presentation of The Star-Spangled Banner by DC Washington (no, really! Dwight Clyde Washington has been singing the National Anthem at American sports arenas for years), but we just miss the The Gay Men's Chorus singing America the Beautiful, Mayor Muriel Bowser announcing "play ball", and the First Pitch. Still, we get food and drink and find our seats (great seats!) no trouble.

    We enjoy the game, even though the home team is trounced, and I am nearly (like, 6 inches away!) bonked by a high ball that comes back behind the batsman, bounces off the fascia of a level behind us, then bounces off the stairway railing right beside my noggin. Someone grabs the ball and has a great souvenir of the game, but sadly, it's not me.

    We catch a taxi from the game back to the marina. What a day!    Baca selengkapnya

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  • PelancongAmericas Great Loop
    Hari 18–20

    Day 18: Coinjock, NC, to Norfolk, VA

    1 Mei, Amerika Serikat ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C

    WE awaken to yet another bright, calm morning, but our alarm clock is someone beside the wharf with a lawn mower! Good on them!

    We're off the dock by 0730. Graeme's on the lines while Preston inches the boat forward for him, and I set about chammying things down after last night's thunder storm and downpour.

    We motor up the short remainder of the North Carolina Cut and into Coinjock Bay from where the channel soon leads us into Currituck Sound and the North Landing River. The ICW takes us through North Landing River in a narrow channel, belied by the visual breadth of the river. The river presents as a sound at this location. depth in the channel is around 13 ft and around us in the 'bay', 3, 4, or 5 ft. You could walk across this wide river at this point. We talk to a southbound tug... he wants us to pass on his 'One', ie port-to-port. Preston moves across for him and we briefly see 8 and 9 ft of water beneath us.

    At 30 statute miles (yes, we only have 30 miles of the Atlantic ICW to negotiate), we're into the sinuous North Landing River proper and heading up to the Albemarle & Chesapeake Canal that will lead us up to the Great Bridge Lock (the first for us on this voyage) thence into the southern branch of the Elizabeth River and finally the Lafayette River at Norfolk.

    The Great Bridge Lock isn't really a 'lift-you-up-or-down' arrangement. Rather, it's to control the salinity level in the North Landing River and thus also Currituck Sound by limiting tidewater from the Elizabeth River flowing back down the canal to the North Landing River. Graeme and I hold the lines on our port side but the boat doesn't get any lower, before the gates ahead open and we pull in our lines and lead our procession of about 15 other vessels (that have gathered behind us since we left Coinjock, and are probably mostly 'bLoopers') out into the Elizabeth River.

    Our voyage towards Norfolk--about 12 miles distant--is delayed several times as we wait for bridges to open and, in one case, a tug holding a barge against a dock while a massive crane is walked onto it.

    A coal train crossing a bridge holds us up at one bridge as does a caboose hop at another as we arrive into industrial (and naval) Norfolk. Some of the bLoopers behind us peel off and head for the Waterside Hotel and its marina. The American Great Loop Cruisers Assn is holding its annual Rendezvous here at the moment.

    Preston's brother-in-law, who dined with us at Coinjock last night, meets us on the dock at the Norfolk Yacht & Country Club just into the Lafayette River, and PHASE ONE of our great journey is done.

    Having started from near West Palm Beach rather than down in Key West, we've negotiated about 90% of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway and what an experience it's been! Graeme and I crack a beer while Preston and Sam take 5 oil samples from the engines.

    PHASE TWO will take us from here to Waterford, NY, where the Mohawk River meets the Hudson River., PHASE THREE will take us through about half of what is known as the 'Erie Canal' (more correctly, the New York State Barge Canal) to Oswego on Lake Ontario, and PHASE FOUR will be the Great Lakes from Oswego via the Welland Ship Canal, Cleveland, and Detroit to Traverse City, Michigan.

    We three walk to the yacht club restaurant for a celebratory dinner. Tomorrow, we'll shop and then explore some of Virginia's history.

    Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.......    Baca selengkapnya

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  • PelancongStates are High
    Hari 6

    Of to Seattle at laaaaast

    28 April, Amerika Serikat ⋅ ☀️ 6 °C

    OK arose early 0500 to get ready to move on cab waiting to Dulles(Dallas they call it) airport to fly to Seattle.big big airport get dropped of similar to Brissy then check in Down 1 floor then catch a train to departure lounge yes that's right a train.
    Out of train breky awaits breky taco for Deb egg Sanga Neil ( tasted like plastic) then of to gate 65 to get ready to board our 5 hour flight.
    Flight got very bumpy about 2 his out and we were strapped in and yeah got tossed around a bit not really bad just slightly annoying trying to get sleep.
    Pics1 to3 breky at chilli bowl Cafe.
    Pics 4 to 8 are snow capped hills half hour out of Seattle not promising for a warm day lol.
    Pics9 to14 coming into hotel in cab first few is of container terminals 5 of them odd shaped building is opposite our hotel rather striking and different.
    Settled into room now food calls outside it is about 12c feels like 0 with little breeze yep next venture will need gloves etc to keep warm,oh well in training to acclimatise for Alaska trip lol.
    Our room is very spacious to say the least about the size of our garage no joke then the toilet/shower is size of unsuited very comfy and huge.    Baca selengkapnya

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  • PelancongStates are High
    Hari 4

    Size of Washington Memorials

    26 April, Amerika Serikat ⋅ 🌬 20 °C

    OK these are google picks of Arlington Cemetary,Lincoln Memorial and other government buildings,this place is huge and is so strongly fortified their are police and rangers everywhere watching everything going on.
    From top of Arlington to the White house is approx 6 kms,Arlington cemetery alone is 3km wide by 1km,covers over 643 acres,width of the park heading from Lincoln to White house is approx 800 mtrs wide and approx 4 1/2kms long.
    Very long way if you want to walk it.thats why people bus it around.    Baca selengkapnya

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  • PelancongStates are High
    Hari 4

    Among the lost and remembered

    26 April, Amerika Serikat ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C

    Today we hit a very impressive Arlington National Cemetary that has in it vast amounts of history and museums.
    We start of at Vietnam Veterans memorial walk which has over 58,000 names inscribed in it for the Americans killed in Vietnam Conflicts.
    The amount of people who recognised me as an Aussie who was in Vietnam was very gratifying and special especially the young American teenagers who came from Dallas and Illanois who thanked me for my service.It hits home when you get recognition from total strangers.One african American vet even yelled out aver a small crowd "without that Aussie Veteran helping us over there I would be not here"then he said "that is true my brother hooraaah to you my brother and thank you for saving us".I said "thank you for your time over too brother hoooraaaah to you".
    The Lincon memorial was and is windblown as to the scale of it has to be at least 20 to 30 ft high and 10 ft across the chair.Ceiling is a good 60 ft high and all the inscription are chiselled into the stone.
    The amount of people there today were amazing and that happens every day.
    We then hopped on to one of the many tour buses to do the round trip of the whole area glad we did it covers over 15 km of the arlington,Washington area .    Baca selengkapnya

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  • PelancongFly with me
    1
    Hari 25–26

    Besuch beim Clown vom Weißen Haus 🤡

    14 April, Amerika Serikat ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C

    Diesmal führte mich mein Layover direkt ins Herz von Washington D.C. – unser neues Crew Hotel liegt nicht mehr im Vorort Alexandria, sondern mitten in der Stadt. Super modern, super schön !
    Nach der Ankunft am Nachmittag ging’s für uns erstmal zu Trader Joe’s. Der Fußmarsch von knapp 30 Minuten war nach dem langen Flug zwar etwas anstrengend, aber die frische Luft hat richtig gutgetan. Zurück im Hotel gab’s ein kleines Abendessen im Bett.
    Am nächsten Tag hab ich mich mit zwei Kolleginnen zum Frühstück getroffen und dann sind wir zum Kapitol und weißen Haus gelaufen.
    Das war irgendwie ziemlich komisch so nah bei Trump zu sein 🤡
    Da ich nur einen Tag da war ging es am Nachmittag schon wieder zurück. Ich durfte wieder im Cockpit starten.
    Das war wieder sehr sehr toll 🥰 und die Arbeit verging wie im Flug ✈️    Baca selengkapnya

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  • 🇺🇸 Påsketur 2025
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    1
    Hari 2

    Washington dag 1

    12 April, Amerika Serikat ⋅ ☁️ 6 °C

    Travl dag med vigtige historiske stop og en cherry parade som afholdes hvert år til ære for kirsebærtræerne. Sluttede dagen i ZOO for at se den famøse røde panda og Klint fandt selvfølgelig en buddy.

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