Washington, District of Columbia, USA (21st May 2008) One of the reasons why we chose to stay where we did, apart from the ultra budget price was the transport links, we had a subway station down the street and one of the city's major buses stops right outside our door every 6 minutes. To our surprise the metro and bus system is really quite expensive compared to other places we have been (Chicago and Atlanta) and rather than buy a week pass like we usually do...

Atlanta, Georgia, USA (14th May 2008) When we arrived at our hostel in Atlanta we were told that we were unable to check in until five in the evening which left us with a good three hours to kill. Not wanting to venture too far away we made the sensible decision to go and find a supermarket to get the food for our weeks stay. We were lucky to find one only two blocks away and after an hour and a half wasting time wondering up and down every aisle we were luggi...

Houston, Texas, USA (7th May 2008) Ok so you can forget anything we have said so far about horrendous travelling days and the worst flight ever because our trip from Miami to Houston now takes both of those titles. After getting less than two hours sleep thanks to getting back from Disney late we were up again at five to get to the airport for six. Luckily we still had the car do we didn't have to worry about public transport or paying for a taxi; we simply dr...

Miami, Florida, USA (30th Apr 2008) Our first day in Miami pretty much followed the same routine we had become accustomed to on all our first days in new cities in the USA.We were up early to get to the airport, we had a relatively pain-free flight where for a change we weren't sitting together and then we had a torturous two hour bus ride to get us to our hostel. We were staying in South Beach in Miami Beach and the hostel seemed like it ticked all the standa...

Chicago, Illinois, USA (23rd Apr 2008) Our flight to Chicago was probably one of the best we have had so far thanks to the kind lady at the check in desk who gave us a row to ourselves so we had space to spread out. The journey to the hostel however was not so great. Although we knew the address of the hostel we didn't have a map to tell us whereabouts it was located so we asked a lady at the airport who told us to take a certain train and a certain bus and we...