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Tom's Global Adventure
Hi everyone. Even though I'm due back home in 2 days I thought I'd let you all know how my trip in America was as I haven't updated my site in so long!!
After working at camp for 9 weeks, which was a good experience, 8 of us decided that we would go on a road trip from Boston to Miami and back up again. If you look on a map you'll see that is a really really long way and covers the whole stretch of the east coast also going through 12 of the states.
So we left about 3 weeks ago on the 20th August and then drove down to NY. As we were all trying to keep a budget we bought a tent and camping equipment so we wouldn't be having to pay for motels everynight. It took us about a week and a bit travelling down to Miami as we took the slower coastal route and stopped off at loads of surfing town along the way such as Virginia beach which was brilliant. Once we got to Miami we stayed in a hostel that i went to when I first arrived in America which was right on the main clubbing strip and as I had my friends ID we made the most opf the good location!
We stayed there for 4 days before heading back up north on the faster route 95 which is a highway travelling from florida all the way to Canada, so its huge!
On the way up we stopped at universal studios in Orlando but didn't go in because it was too much to pay as it was only open for another 4 hours when we got there but we went to the cinema instead which was a good laugh.
After stopping in a few other towns we then reached Washington DC and had a wicked day walking around the city seeing all the sights and basically being like a load of tourists posing next to statues and stuff. It was really interesting though and cool to see things like the WW2 memorial and the Vietnam memorials and alll the other things that you see on TV.
After spending a night there we all went and stayed with a girl called laura that worked with us on camp in Philadelphia and she took us all to a college house party which was crazy and totally different to the parties we have in England.
Now we are all in New York, had our last night together last night and the other are leaving me my friend here later on this evening and we are staying in the city.
My flights tomorrow and 6pm so I'll be arriving in England at about 6am. I've had an amazing 12 months but I'm ready to come back now and get back to settling down again. Can't wait to unpack my backpack for the last time!
See you all 'very' soon
Tom
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