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I’ve never been to Washington, DC before so I spent some days visiting my friend, and touring the city. It’s a great city, made even more beautiful by the monuments and towering buildings. Obama’s helicopter even flew over us and landed at the White House. Here are some photos from the weekend:
This house at Beachwood Canyon in the Hollywood Hills is covered in little toys and wonderous miniatures.
Just returned from a week-long visit to Hawaii. I lived there for a couple of years, and it’s bittersweet to see it again. I miss it already. Hawaii is a place where the blues and greens take over the senses and the ocean water wears the skin down, just like it would a stone rolling in the waves for hundreds of years. Here are some photos from the trip:
Spent a beautiful weekend at home in the bay area. Lafayette, CA may be a place few will visit, but it’s breathtaking this time of year. Oranges, yellows cover the earth, but the sky stays a certain blue.
Here are a few more photos….
Philadelphia (and also Newark it seems) airport have gone to the dogs– as in raining cats and dogs. Weather has caused a certain someone I was supossed to pick up at the airport at 6:30pm to be stuck at the Philly airport until 9pm, so that he will arrive at LAX at 2 :30AM. After waiting on the runway for SIX hours, the plane had to turn around and go back to the gate to refuel, adding a couple more hours onto the wait time.
And this is after a 9 hour flight from Europe.
Airports and flying are becoming one of the most frustrating vortexes in the world. I used to love traveling– the excitement of the airport, the friendly staff, and even the food. These days, after you take off your shoes, throw away your waters and expensive face cream just to make it through security, and then cram into your tiny seat only to receive water on a cross-country flight, well, all the magic is pretty much gone.
Now, add to that ridiculous delays and the grummbling that airlines are cutting the amount of fuel in the planes, and the experience becomes as much fun as your last dentist appointment.
Something’s gotta change. Or maybe it’s everything that’s gotta change– the economy, gas prices– everything.
A few months ago, I did some writing for a new website called Trazzler. It is a smart travel website that gives you unique suggestions for trips to take local to your area. The site is up now, so go ahead and take a look. I wrote about Hawaii, but there are plenty of wonderful, wild places to see!
I am in New Mexico for a few days for a story I am doing, and so far all I’ve seen is Albuquerque. It’s a nice little city, if only for the fact that it lacks the crowded rush of Los Angeles. Leaving LA has really made me realize how much I have fallen comfortably in the ways of that city. Here, people drive slower. They talk slower. It’s a nice change, but it just reminds me of how much I love a real, big city.
But there’s no denying the sky of this place.
I’m off to Navajo Nation for the next couple of days. It will be my first time on Native American sovereign land, so it will be an interesting experience.
Rebecca M Ford 