Enjoy travel. Dislike tourists...that's what living in DC forever can do to a person. Favor unique/small places to stay but not so small that the owners want to introduce their kids over breakfast. In cities, it's all about being able to step out the door...right into the city.
June 14 2007: Go to Victoria Falls. Leave. Do not pass go. This place looked like the best place to stay...turns out it's where tossers from the UK go to have a long weekend of drinking all day and smelling by the pool. Oh, and it's fine for families...the kids don't know any better.
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