My good friend and world traveler, Mike, spent the day with me exploring a few of our favorite museums in DC last summer. I moved west in '89, but love going back to my roots in DC. So, we took the subway from Silver Spring and stumbled onto the Mall on a partly sunny August day. We naturally hit the Nat'l Gallery of Art (East Bldg.) first, but not without some excitement! Mike had his swiss army knife on his belt (a woodsman at heart) thus, the security guards didn't like that! One guard told Mike he couldn't even check it in and to "stash it in the bushes outside". Off Mike goes as I wait inside. Well, 10 minutes pass, then 20 and I'm thinking "where in the heck did he go"? Is he off
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