The Inn at Dupont Circle
Travel Blogs from Washington DC
The nations capital
... Sydney and is 20 and the other is from Melbourne and a bit older. There is a kiwi who was born in NZ but lived in UK for past 10 years. A young couple from the UK doing a world tour and another guy from Uk. Then there is 3 chicks from Switzerland (they didnt know eachother). So a good mix of people and everyone is nice. Our leader is calld Art and he might get a bit of getting used to. I know Im so very excited for all this but I know these 3 weeks will feel ...
M-I-C.....K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E.....wait, where are we?
Headed into DC on our first public transportation adventure together Bennett commented on how it was only Monday and it seemed like it should be later in the week. We all know Brandi would slow it down as much as possible. Today is her final day as trigenarian and she’s finally seen the White House in person. The ride in took us about an hour via both bus and train. We disembarked at the Archives and Navy Memorial off the Green Line. We had no real plan ...
Washington
... the presidential helicopters were flying overhead, apparently their are three helicopters so the public is never sure which one he is in. Next stop was the Washington memorial, you will recognise it from Forrest Gump. Sad when we get our history lessons from movies. The Lincoln memorial is more or less on the same site. I Stood in the exact same stop that Martin Luther King delivered his very famous "I have a dream" speech....it all was really a bit surreal, we have all ...
Washington DC
... The Korean War Memorial depicts troops on patrol. They look like ghosts, very eerie.
I wish we had more time in D.C. the tour was great. The only problem I had with the hop on hop off was that there was too long a wait between buses. We were not able to see the National Archives to do more research on my family, and we missed the tour on the Potomac.
Our next stop will be Hershey,PA and Chocolate World. YUM!!
...
Let The Crazy Adventure Begin!
From May16th till the June 5th I was booked on a cross-country tour, travelling from New York to Los Angeles. The trip was going to take 3 weeks.
The group all met for the first time in a hotel lobby nearby Newark Airport on the morning of the 16th. We also met our Trek Leader, Micah from Kentucky. He's quite an odd fellow to look at on first impressions. Always wore a bandanna and had a HUGE ginger beard. He ...