This is Washington D.C. Part 2, enjoy it.

Washington has a lot of interesting places with a lot of Sights, but one of the most famous is surely the white house, so we are going to start with it now.

We haven't seen Mr. President, but we saw a good alternative. :)  We also have been to the World War II Memorial. In the very background you may can see the Lincoln Monument, later on you will see some pictures.

We run right into a big crowd, with many kites in the air. It was the kite festival going on.

Lincoln Monument,



Washington Monument from the other side:

 We wanted to meet Pablos cousin Reina, her husband Florian and their children Caroline and Sophie, which was more than unexpected challenging in the crowd without an mobile phone and only an unspecificied meeting point. But we made it! Thank you all for the great day in Washington.  

And this is one of the Bars we visited and enjoyed.

And of course, thank you so much Sara for haveing us the couple of days!

Okay that was Washington, we hope you enjoyed our Posts. The next Posts will be uploaded soon,

Dodo and Pablo



Hey hey,
before we take you to Washington DC, we show you where we spent the night before. It was near King George. After a funny evening with our Hosts we started the long way to Washington DC. This is part 1 out of 2 we will make for the capital of the USA.

The Barn and the horses were just a little part of this long way.

Much later this day, we saw the first sign which told us how far we still had to go. Jiihaah!

And than, after driving through a rough neighbourhood in the southeast of D.C. we saw in a far distance the Washington Monument, telling us that we almost made it.

Much, much closer now, direct in front of the Heart of Washington, the Capitol, we had been told from an ambitious police officer that we are not allowed to let our bicycles unguarded if we leave our things on it. Even our blue matresses, beacause nobody knew what we are hiding in them.

We escaped into a nice little cafe in the near of our host in Washington, to wait for her comeing home from work so that we can enter her apartement and finally get a shower and get rid of our backpacks.

Well done, we started our Washington sightseeing tour with the International Zoo. A nice Zoo with a lot of animals and food stands (of course).

We haven't eat something in the Zoo, we found our food about 5 minutes away on the Adams Morgan street. This it not photoshop, this is the pure reality! 5 Bucks and a lot of quality!

It is also worth to visit the Georgetown University.

A fast look on the clock and... Ups, class is starting in one minute, damn. Hurry up!

But the topic was boring, so we left again.

You see. So through the Healy Hall, out onto the Campus...

with eyes straight onto Washington D.C Downtown. And also to our Washington Post part 2, which we hope to write soon. But this shall it be for the first, greetings and take care you all!

Hey guys, welcome back on our journeypresentation!

We quit with North Carolina at this day, shared with a little bit of rain.

To... Hello Virginia! And Hello Chesapeake to our first hosts. Thank you very much for the stay! It was very awesome to stay at yours, greetings from our final destination!

And from Chesapeake we hit the road again, this time until our destination, also Virginia, Richmond. Yes, we are still run with our bicycles, so don't think we are fast or can hit our record of 84 miles a day! :) Believe us, that is very difficult, wear 40-50 pounds backpacks and still show hills and sometimes headwind a ****you and driving faster and more miles a day.



But then, much more earlier than we had wished we saw the american version of snow in the Marc-April besides the roads, perfectly shown with help of this street arrow.

As you can see, we keep up with the few Bicycle trails along our trip, which are by the way much less than every country should have, and continiued our journey wich the things we spend time and money on. Hey Richmond... In our view a pure ghetto because everything we saw was a ghetto. Sorry about you, the Richmond guys... 

Ups, by the way, at the time we entered Richmond we had a new little problem. Dodo's Backwheel spokes were unable to be our fellas all the way again, so a nice but a little bit drunken guy, token right away from a nice irish pub gives us a ride to the next bicycle shop, where we fixed this problem right in time.

Fixing our bikes is everytime a good idea, but do not disturb us from telling you our story. Okay Here we go to...

Washington DC, what comes up the next time, when we will be not drinking and haven't some plans for... Now... Sorry guys, we have to spend a penny later at a bar or something like that. Keep updated, see you later. Stay tuned and keep it easy, greetings from New York City!



Okay, another hour! At which point we had to stop? Ah right the beginning of the awesome outher banks! Some information about the outher banks? The place where the famous pirate Black Beard searches for an hidden treasure and got killed? The windy chain of islands going up to virginia, far in the atlantic ocean? The place where the brothers wright turned into famous pioneers? The islands where the first english settlers started a new life but somehow dissappered (google Lost colony Roanoke) No, we will not give you information about the Outher banks.

Ocracoke, where we arrived with the second ferry is full of nice buildings, proberly very expensive.

As you can see here:

and in the background here.

And now we had to tell you that we are paddling fast and even faster, so we came into colder and colder areas, we might hit snow soon. Okay this pictures we took in the near of Ocracoke, after a cold night in our tent with our socksgloves.

We had to go north, but we still had the time to see this beautiful lighthouse ind Buxton with its neat museum.

Have you ever saw a deer this close? We saw plenty of them this day. This one in the morning, it follows us quite a few feets until it crossed this street and got safe in the nature.

If you look at this pictures, you can see DoDo next to the biggest sand dunes in the USA! Wow, can you believe that? We believed that and climbed one of them. (quite an workout with backpacks and bicycles after ridin' about 60 miles.)

Here we went to the memorial of the two brothers... how was their name again?

Yeah here you go. The brothers wright!

 

A famous place with of course...

their flyer.

Almost at our destination at the southern shores in Kitty Hawk, we meet these troop. But also another deerfamily and other deers and more deers and than our hosts.

Bill and Dorothy, thank you very much for the history day and the place to stay and the meal and everything! Maybe you will find your way to this blog soon.

 

This bear really wanted to join us to say: "Good buy and we hope you enjoy this blog." Unfortunaly he also wanted to eat us, so we escaped. But thanks for posing Mr. Bear!

Here are some few more pictures from north myrtle beach. We didn't manage to upload them on the last post. Sorry for that.

 

 

CJ, covered from Pablo (sorry), Brucks, Erin (sorry that I spelled you wrong the post before!) , Luke, Cenibyl, Dodo and the cat smokey. Greetings to you! We hope you are fine and enjoying your surfing times.

 

 

Florida, Georgia, then South Carolina and hey! North Carolina!

 

with also great hosts, shown in the picture below:

 

Thank you so much for the stay!

On the road again, passing a lot of neat places and bridges. Going along highways is not at all a beautiful way to see the country, but you can see some quite nice places like this one:

Yes, i thought about buying this car, but Pablo can't decide between this sporty one or the old classic vw bus.

So we moved on with our bicycles until a place called Newport at the house of Alex and Mary. Thank you very much again, we cought the ferry just in time.

Ferry? Yes, everyone who wants to travel along the outher banks in north carolina has to take a ferry from the ceder island to ocracoke.

 

 

 

A windy ride into the wide intercoastal waterway, we think it is called Pamlico Sound.

 

We fought the strong headwind to get to another ferry.

Which departured from this place, where we got something to eat.

 

 

Unfortunaly, our computer Session at this Library will end in about 5 minutes, so we have to end this post now. Hey we will write the next post as soon as possible.

So long, and thank you for everything!