Lincoln Memorial Washington DC

Monday, June 4, 2012

Today we're spending the day in Washington, D.C. Dan recommends not taking any backpacks as they're frowned upon by security in some of the museums and buildings. So I've just got my camera around my neck and what I can fit in my pockets. Still a bit sunburned, plus I know I'll be in the sun all day, so I'm wearing the …

Thought I would keep with tradition and set the alarm early on a Monday morning to embark on a trip to the National Capital of the country I was in - this time for a change Washington D.C. On the subway at 6am (armed with coffee and a bagel) I headed up to Grand Central to meet the day tour bus. We set off on the 4 hour trip and escaped Manhattan …

Da es heute nochmal schönes Wetter werden sollte, beschlossen wir, die Hop on-Hop off-Busse zu nutzen. Ob sich das als gute Wahl herausstellen sollte, klären wir gleich.
Zunächst nahmen wir die rote Linie vorbei am Capitol und ein paar Smithsonian-Museen bis zum Stop am Washington Monument. Dort wollten wir in die blaue Linie Richtung …

We got off our bus this morning in Washington central, at the Smithsonian Musuem....wow...the kids split and walked around there for 1.5 hours, we met back up and then had lunch...subway. From the we walked up to the Lincoln memorial, had many photos and looked around. Lots to do. When our coach " found us" (don't ask)...we headed off to the …

We left our hotel at 6.45am on the 27th of Jan to get to park avenue to start a bus tour of Washington DC. this was a bit of a struggle since our Australia day festivities didn't wrap up until after 3.30am. We arrived in Washington at around 12 after a quick stop off in Delaware. First we headed to the Lincoln memorial which is a marble and …

Taking a visit to the Capitol and the Holocaust Museum. We also stopped by POLITICO and had a Q&A session with Charles Mahtesian, National Politics Editor. We got to meet Jim Renacci, Senator Sherrod Brown, and had a surprise encounter with Bob Taft. It was a great day exploring and meeting new people. We also got to check out the Jefferson …

A really good breakfast in the morning at the Holiday Inn was enough to keep us filled up til later, however Rich wasn't exactly awake as his first right hand turn took us straight into oncoming traffic which had us in terror at first then we saw the funny side as rich got abuse from some American's driving the correct way. No sooner had this …

Entry containing 24 photos titled: Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument, Capitol, Korean War Veterans Memorial, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, White House, Jefferson Memorial, National Air and Space Museum

We started in the National Air and Space Museum with a free tour - not so interesting for me but Dominic enjoyed it. We did see the first Wright brother's plane though. The Capitol building was quite interesting but had really tight security. I wasn't impressed when they said we had to get rid of all food and drink before entering, as we hadn't had …

Vandaag een drukke dag. We staan op tijd op omdat we, ook al vooraf in Nederland, een tour door het Capitool geboekt hebben. Weer met de taxi er naar toe, wat gaat dat snel. Het weer is mooi, zonnig en warm dus blauwe lucht, altijd leuk voor foto's. De tour valt iets tegen, je ziet maar een paar zalen en de gids praat amerikaans op een frans tempo …

... building which had photos of the interior then headed over to some of the monuments.  We saw the Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, WW2 Memorial, Korean War Memorial and the Jefferson Memorial.  After walking to all of those we were ...

... and I headed to L'efant Plaza, right near the central mall area. I did the whole tourist thing, The Capitol, Washington Monument, Lincoln memorial, White House, Jeffeson etc etc. The day was blazing hot, but clever Hodge took a mac and the mother of ...

... of note is that in 1791, Washington DC was the first planned national capital in the world. The U.S. Capitol is at one end of "the mall" and the Lincoln Memorial at the other end with the Washington Monument in the middle. I think pictures say it ...

... etched into black granite.  Sometimes you would see someone doing a rubbing of the name of a loved one.  The Lincoln Memorial is huge, very impressive structure with a large statue of Lincoln seated in it.  Lincoln was instrumental in ...

... and the Smithsonian Museums.  2/3 of the way down is the Washington Monument, where you could  continue on to the Lincoln Memorial or turn right for the White House (which is remarkably smaller than I imagined). That evening I headed back to ...

... then spend the afternoon in the heavily air-conditioned museums. As a result, I didn't walk the whole way down to the Lincoln Memorial, but just kept going straight to the White House. Incidentally, have you ever thought how uninspired that name is? ...

... ; And I know you will not believe me when I tell you this….but when we crossed the Washington Memorial Bridge, just west of the Lincoln Memorial, our tripometer from Houston read 1776 miles.  That’s right….1776.   ...

... about how he had served in the Gulf War, and how much fun our Aussie soldiers are (especially with a few beers in them!). Lincoln Memorial was really something - the statue is pretty damn big!! Had lots of photos there, then we walked down to the ...

... here today as there was a big press conference about to happen, but we didn't stick around for that! Abrahamn Lincoln memorial, FDR Presedential monument, Vietnam and Korean Veterans memorials.........yes, loads of memorials! We went to an Art Gallery ...

... Washington. It is apparently also the tallest stone building in the world. It was very windy at Washington Monument but the views towards both the Lincoln Memorial and Capitol Hill were amazing. I made the decision to head towards the Lincoln Memorial. ...