The day we built an empire...
I won't lie, the reason I wanted to go to Atlantic City was because of the HBO show 'Boardwalk Empire'. Unfortunately for me the show is set in the late 20s/early 30s and its 2012. A lot has changed since then.
We caught a bus (shiy shit shit) from New York at around 1pm and pulled into Atlantic City at around 3. First thing we noticed was that a lot of the casinos were the same names/themes as the ones on Vegas and they were a lot more tightly packed. We hadn't booked accommodation so we called the Econo Lodge and got some cheap rooms for the night.
I was itching to get out on the Boardwalk so we got our shit stowed and ran out toward the ocean. I had mixed feelings about it. Being overcast, a monday and the off season I tried to take this into account but the landmark has definitely seen better days. I feel like they just slack off ths rules at this time of year and all the cool things are either being rennovated or closed until summer. We wandered down, me hoping to find some of the buildings or buisnesses from the show but alas, a wooden wall covered in pictures of the buildings featured in Boardwalk Empire showed me where some of these buildings used to be. I was disappointed that Babette's Supper Club was now an empty lot. The disappointment dudn't end here.
We saw the worlds smallest menu and ate shitty food.
We walked around a whole bunch. Then a whole bunch more.
We went and gambled a bit. Well, I watched. Rhys and Chris won some money at blackjack then bet 50 on black and won.
I didn't really enjoy Atlantic City.
I don't want to talk about it anymore.
...and saw where an Empire was built.
We caught another bus out of Atlantic to go 4 hours to Wsshington DC. It turns out that bus tickets for long trips are just sold unrestrictedly and they just let on the first people in the line, regardless of how many tickets they have sold. Genius.
After waiting an hour for them to clean up their mess and get us another bus we were on our way through Baltimore and got in at about 5pm. We went and did some washing (in Washington' teeheehee) and tried for about an hour to find a place to stay.
We ended up getting a room with 2 extra beds and had a terrible dinner at red lobster and a terrible sleep. Hurrah. MJ snored that night, louder than a rock concert so the other 3 of us didn't get much sleep. We got up early to transfer to our booked hostel and we discovered the reason we had such a hard time finding a room was due to some sort of childrens convention as there were school kids everywhere. Bummer.
We did the obligiatory Washington things: Gawked at the White House, laughed at the Washington monument, saw the reflecting pool midway through rennovations and old Abe in all his stone glory.
We also visited a few museums, primarily to see the 'Art of Video Gaming' exhibit at the Smithsonian Art Museum. We also stumbled across the 'International Spy museum' which was very cool, one of the exhibirs let you crawl through an air vent. I was totally John McLane.
That night we went and had a nice dinner for Rhys' birthday and I discovered an amazingly delicious cider imported from Ireland. For dessert we had some diabetes unducing cupcakes from a cupcakery and saw 'The Dictator', I won't spoilz but it was very.funny.
The next day we got up early again (uuuuugh) and flew out to Atlanta, Georgia.
No empires here.
Atlanta was definitely a place...
Happy travels friends. Next blog will be my last.
Reece.
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