Washington D.C.

The capitol	Matt and Erin arrived in Washington DC a rather later than expected on Sunday 3rd August due to flight delays. (Ed.) Hello, Just a quick mail because it's almost 2AM and we've been up since 4:30AM. The internet here is free but everyone wants a go, so it may be a little while before we can get a full report hammered out. We're in Washington D.C. staying here: http://www.dchostel.com Anyway, we're both fine and Cuba was excellent (Jamaica a bit of a let down). Love, Matt
Erin and some globe thing, Hirshorn Sculpture Garden	They have been very this week busy shopping for transport and finally settled on a 1994 Honda Civic Ex. It's a two door coupe with CC, PS, CD and a Sunroof. Low on petrol, and low mileage (for USA anyway) Since the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001, security has remained high around Washington's key monuments (White House, Capitol, Congress) so Matt and Erin have only been able to see most of them from the outside as they walked from the Lincoln Memorial to the Capitol. They did get to visit the National Air and Space Museum though which Matt said was very good.
National Air and Space Museum	They left Washington on Friday 8th August and drove as far as Havre de Grace about 30-40 miles north of Baltimore. (Shown by the blue line.) Then following the yellow brick road :-) (sorry) they drove to New York and spent a couple of days there then on to Boston, followed by Rochester, (They had tickets to a Ben Folds concert there on 17th August.)
Car in some state park	From there they headed off to Montreal to stay with Julie. They left Montreal early on the 21st August heading for Niagara Falls and Toronto. From Toronto it will be Chicago, then Minnesota, then the Interstate to Seattle. They expect to have about 40 hours driving from Chicago to Seattle but they're not due in Vancouver until 26th or 27th August so they should be able to spread it out between them. They're looking well aren't they?