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Coast2Coast USA - raising money for the noah's ark appeal and the childrens hospital for wales.

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When are you guys setting out? Where do you have places to stay already covered and who is already doing events or fundraising for you? Where do you need places to stay and where could there be fundraising done for you?

Coast2Coast USA - raising money for the noah's ark appeal and the childrens hospital for wales.

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I sent you an email and was thinking that you guys could auction miles on ebay - like "We'll Ride a Mile in Your Name" and announce them on your site and on here - I'd be happy to promo that online for youAlso, do a blog on here and do a blow-by-blow and acknowledge the people who pledged or dono'ed and give updates -check our groups and members list for groups, societies and associations in the states you're going through and message them to see if they or their members can help

KENT?? Dont you swear at me!!!

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You're probably right, lol, he's certainly entitled! Have a good time, Gareth!

British through and through

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Probably certainly that their ancestors were foreign invaders, because they were!

British through and through

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Yes, the original White House was burned by British troops who invaded and sacked the town of Washington (which at that time was one of a few towns in the District of Columbia) during the war of 1812. http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/washingtonsack.htm If you read the above, you'll see that the invasion came while President James Madison was across the river in Virginia and first lady Dolly Madison was preparing a dinner party. She and her guests fled, the British soldiers came into the house and found this awesome state dinner, sat down and ate it and then sacked the house and set it on fire.If you go to DC, you can hear the story and see some of the artifacts from the house and this battle at the American History Museum (which is very cool). My memory was that it wasn't on the site of the current White House but the stuff I read online doesn't say that so I'm probably wrong about that.

Brit image in the US

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Wow, that's interesting. I wouldn't have thought that British soldiers would have a bad reputation with US soldiers? I don't know what that is. My ex-FIL was career Navy, now I want to ask him about that?And the black-white thing, Virginia is the South. I ran into that same thing in Alabama. I came from LA with a lawyer and stayed in Birmingham and all the hotel minions were black, everyone else white. I was a paralegal, a minion, so I'd go make friends with hotel minions, and they'd always be stiff and unfriendly until they heard me speak and saw that I was "from" California, then they were friendly and wanted to hear all about LA. Conversely, the white Alabamans would warn me off the black Alabamans obliquely and with wide-eyed concern - they'd say things like "that's the Other Side!" and stuff like that. Very wierd.

Penmaenmawr. San Fransisco of North Wales

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"Like most straight guys I got a massive fascination with all things gay," That's the most hysterical, sexually secure statement I've ever heard from a straight man about gay men. You'd never hear an American guy say something like that.Here we used to have logger drag queens and I loved seeing them - big strapping guys with beards in satin evening gowns and their steel-toed work boots, stomping around a section of Portland weekend nights that used to be called "Boys Town", and in the bars there, but is mostly gone now. I liked them because they were totally out front and unapologetic, not really trying to look like women (no way could they, even with wax!) and just out to have their own good time on the weekend, then back to work.

Examples of Welsh Influence on America

American Welsh History

Wow! I wonder if I can find some of that online, I'm going to look. That sounds really fascinating and I'd love to see it.And I was looking for this, apparently Barack Obama may be of Welsh descent, too: http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/WelshforObama/gGxdVF

Examples of Welsh Influence on America

American Welsh History

And here's an article on this that was very interesting: http://www.data-wales.co.uk/plantations.htm

Examples of Welsh Influence on America

American Welsh History

Here's a link to the Library of Congress' "Wales and Welsh" items in the Folklife Collection: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Welsh.html There are lots of music recordings, including:AFS 24,219A10-11: "Huddersfield" and "Cwm Rhondda" sung by the congregation of the Peniel Church during Gymanfa Ganu. Recorded in Pickett, August 25, 1940. (Seven minutes; RWB 2922)and I love the sound of this and think I'll try and order it someday (bit expensive!):AFS 25,519: One disc containing an interview with Casper L. Leach in which he talks of the Welsh people coming to work in the slate quarries in his area. Recorded in Pawlet, Vermont, August 17, 1934. (Twelve minutes; tape copy on LWO 25,028 reel 58B)