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,
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