After a long muggy uncomfortable night in the tent (which i'm sure i'll get used to) we woke for a true camp site breakfast of bagals, juice, tea, toast... Well everything actually. We then set off for a full day in Washington DC and returned to the White House where for some reason we could now get up to the gate without being b******ed by plod! so we managed to get some pretty decent photos. We moved on to the Old Post Office which had a small shopping mall sit...

I arrived at the Hilton Newark Airport Hotel at around 1830 and checked in to my room which wasn't bad but not on the same grand scale as my 6th Avenue Warwick hotel, where I discovered, had been host to the likes of Cary Grant, Audry Hepburn, Elvis Presley, James Dean and The Beatles! I spent the evening down at the hotel bar where i chatted to a sqaudy based in Germany. He was also there for a Trek America tour, though not the same one as me. It turned out he k...