Washington & Frederick

Hi everyone!

Can't believe we're finally here and really underway now!

Just a quick update on our first stop. We had a pretty uneventful but quite enjoyable flight over from London to Washington. Bit nervous to start with but once we were in the air felt considerably better.

We were picked up by my uncle and taken back to his house in Frederick, about 45 mins drive from the airport and fed a lovely meal, even though by that time our bodies were telling us we should have been in bed long ago!

Saturday was spent exploring the wonderful city of Washington DC. After a few teething problems with the metro system we managed to cover a lot of the city, including the Botanical Gardens, the Capitol Building, the White House, the Natural History Museum, the Aquarium and the Washington Monument. Amazing city and all very clean, well kept & well presented.

Sunday and Monday were spent with the family and the dog Tobie (who will have an identity crisis if they're not careful - they call him Sally when he's around so he doesn't know they're talking about him...). We saw downtown Frederick and Sugarloaf Mountain, and ate lots of ham (!). We were truly spoiled and it was a fantastic and 'easy' start to our trip. Thanks again for having us!

We stopped by the Air and Space Museum near the airport before our flight to Dallas on Tuesday - a huge hangar with all sorts of examples of aircraft and spacecraft. Very interesting!

In those 4 days we managed to take well over 100 pictures... so will just put a select few onto flickr for you! Follow the link on the right hand side ---->

PS. A few notes on the USA in general - they all drive very large cars or even small trucks, which they have apparently no real need for. Roads very wide and houses very large too!