Happy new year! Happy new year from out New Orleans or 'Nawleans' as they pronounce it here. Last days we've been driving a lot. The day that we left Washington we first visited the Arlington National cemetery (there are the tomb of the unknown soldier and J.F. Kennedy graveside). So we saw the guards changing at the tomb of the unknown soldier, that was pretty particular. Just in short, 24 hours per day, 7 hours per week there are guards walking in front of the...

I'm on. Again a blog which means… I'm able to join the tour! After some exiting hours at the Holiday Inn, Art (our tour leader) came back with a van with 14 seatbelts. You probably can imagine that I was really happy with that. Art phoned around the whole morning so at this moment everybody working at TrekAmerica knows me as 'number fourteen' which also became kind of my nick name. We drove down to Washington and are staying in a nice hotel at this moment. Whe...

I've made it. Yes, I've made it to America. Okay first I'll tell you about my flight. The first airplane I went on was a Boeing 757. The flight went well and I enjoyed the persons around me. Next to me was 'Hurley' sitting. I think most of you know who I mean when I say from the television series Lost (the big, kind, almost stupid one). Well if you found out who I mean, can you imagine him in such a tiny, small airplane seat? But it gets better. Behind me there ...

Packing my bags. Tomorrow I'll depart to America. The trip that I'm going to make is one I only dreamed about before, but thanks to Mitch (who made me a bit overenthusiastic) and the possibility to get four weeks of from work, I'm able to make this journey now already! I'm almost finished with packing my bags (okay to be honest I just started, but it will be fine, no problem! I'm just one of those last minute girls) and besides that I'm so excited that I'll do...