Blogs from District of Columbia, United States, North America - page 95

Today was the last day of touring we could do before the conference started properly. We decided to do a day trip to the county's capital - Washington DC. The trip was a uneventful 3 hour bus journey, that was made all the more uncomfortable by a big oaf in front of me who insisted on reclining his chair to the maximum amount. I had to stare at his big oily fat head the whole journey while trying to fight back fits of clostraphobia. Our first impressions of Washington were "what a clean city". Yup, I officially deem this the cleanest nicest city I've seen in the US so far. All the roads are super wide and the building exteriors look like they're washed daily. Everything smelt of order and preciseness. Washington is the capital, and ... read more

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De hoofdstad van de USA, Washington DC. Zit hier nou al een 5 dagen en het werd wel weer eens tijd voor een update. Vorige keer dat ik me 'meldde' zat ik nog in Atlanta. Daar is in principe niet zo veel te doen. Ben naar het hoofdkantoor van CNN geweest, waar ze de langste roltrap van de wereld hebben en heb de tour gedaan, wat wel leuk was om te zien. Ik was bijna nog op TV. En ik ben naar het Martin Luther King memorial en museum geweest. En een dag naar Stone Mountain Park. Wat in principe een grote steen van 200 meter hoog is waar je op kan klimmen. Daarna ben ik weer met de bus naar Nashville gegaan, oorsprong van de Country muziek, m'n favoriete genre ;) Daar heb ik op ... read more

We left New York City that afternoon and drove back down to Washington DC. Later that evening, Van made plans for us to meet up with a high school friend who was working in the area as an urban planner. Our plans were to meet up at a Cuban restaurant called Citron in the Dupont Circle area. Dinner was great and I discovered a wonderful Cuban drink called a mojito. After dinner, we just walked around Dupont Circle which is a very trendy and hip neighborhood of Washington DC. Van and her friend made plans to meet up again tomorrow for lunch. Today was a long day of driving so we headed back to Van's sister's house for an early night. The next day was an early start as we were going to have a ... read more

Washington, DC, was the next stop on this trip. We took the Pennsylvania Railroad's Senator from New York to Washington, DC. (This was long before Amtrak.) It was exciting to have my first trip on an East Coast railway. My first visit to the National Capital! A day of Gray Line sightseeing in Washington took us to the US Capitol, the Smithsonian, the National Air and Space Museum, the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial, and Arlington National Cemetery. We saw the National Geographic Society Museum and Library of Congress on our own. In 1965, the National Air and Space Museum was housed in World War II Quonset huts set on the National Mall. I liked seeing the Wright Brothers Flyer and Lindbergh's Spirt of St Louis displayed there. I was a devoted reader of National Geographic, ... read more