"Welcome to the Nati" the nice bus driver said. The journey from Indianapolis to Cincinnati was fairly short and uneventful and I got to the hotel by lunch time. Yes, a hotel, because there was no cheap accommodation in town so I was 'forced' to stay at the Ramada. Travelling can be hard on you! It was incredibly sunny and warm as I explored downtown. I decided to spend the afternoon of my first day across the river so I crossed the bridge that was the...

Well, after Detroit I think a landfill would have held more joy and delight for me. However I never dreamed that Indianapolis would be as nice as it was. At the bus station there were no people hanging around outside and as I walked into downtown there were loads of people around and the streets were lined with restaurants, bars and shops. It was like culture shock after the desolation of Detroit. There is a hostel four miles out of downtown so I caught a local ...

Oh. My. God. Why would anyone ever want to go to Detroit? I know why I went there - to tick off Michigan as one of the 50 states. Detroit is, bar none, the most depressing town I have ever visited. On the drive in to town on the Greyhound bus we went passed block after block of boarded-up, abandoned buildings, interrupted occasionally by an unwelcoming grocery-and-liquor store. Once I got out of the bus and walked through downtown to the hotel it was mid-afterno...

Washington was excellent. I was expecting it to be much dirtier and busier but it was actually very clean and the only business was all the tourists. I loved seeing all the sights - as you can see from all the photos I took here: the White House, Washington monument, Lincoln memorial, Jefferson memorial, World War II memorial, Vietnam memorial, Arlington cemetery, Pentagon, National Air & Space museum, Capitol, Holocaust memorial museum and the Old Post Offic...

After I left Philadelphia I got the bus to Wilmington, Delaware and stopped there for a walk around and a bit of lunch. It was a dead town because everything shuts down on Sundays. I found an ice cream shop that was open so I could relax with a coffee. The lady that worked there was really nice and confessed to being fed up with Delaware. I can understand why if my brief stop was representative. I was particularly impressed by their advertising for a local radio ...