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Washington DC Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Washington DC, United States
The Crisis in DC
... a wonderful place full of years upon years of history. Dozens of speeches had been delivered here, and every president of the United States ever had stood in this room! Jimmy Carter himself delivered the Crisis of Confidence speech in this office. ...
Day-3: Voice of America
Voice of America is fascinating. While I'd heard of it, there was so much I didn't know. For example, I didn't know it was prohibited from broadcasting in America! The rationale for not broadcasting here is two-fold: one, so it won't compete with private ...
And We're Off!!
Amidst last minute packing (by Kristin)...and checking and re-checking of "to do" and travel checklists...we're finally on our way. Twenty four hours from now, I'm guessing that Debbie and I will be snug as bugs in a rug at Shirley and Michael's. Love to ...
Taxation Without Representation
... Ier et Henri IV, il y a quatre présidents américains qui font l’unanimité, quatre infaillibles historiques : les fondateurs Washington et Jefferson, et les grandes figures Lincoln et Roosevelt. De fait, ce sont les quatre du Mont Rushmore. Ils ...
Well i have decided to sit down and pen ...
... holiday. Well the place was packed. The building (of this branch anyway) is actually a non-descript shed-esque building on Washington Boulevard. Inside it was equally non-descript - they clearly did not want to waste any tax payer money on partitions, ...
Capital
Well it was official when we arrived in Washington DC that my feet and legs had really had enough of walking but luckily no blisters lol! We did however arrive to glorious sunshine unfortunately we also arrived just in time to watch the derby game which ...
Monuments & Memorials
... holds an awesome collection of aircraft documenting the history of manned flight from the Wright brothers plane to the Lunar Lander. After a relaxing 3 nights in the US capital, we leave the United States on a butt numbing 16 hour bus trip to ...
Columbus Day - walking tour of Embassy Row
Monday, Columbus Day, we went to Dupont Circle to meet up with a tour of Embassy Row. Mary Anne, of Washington Walks, took us on a wonderful tour, showing us the "party palaces" of the rich industrialists built to entertain during the season Congress was ...
Trippin..........
Hi All; My apologies for not being in touch sooner....I am writing this to u from Washington DC..hanging out with my kid Taylor in her awesome condo...I'll be hanging out here for a bit so emailing me works.. Taylor surprised me with a ticket so here i ...
Alweer Bliksem en donder
... . Daar kunnen we zo door de paspoortcontrole heen. Gelukkig maar. We gaan eerst maar eens wat eten. Onze laatste hamburger. In Washington is het net al op de heenweg slecht weer en wederom lopen we een behoorlijke vertraging op omdat het vliegveld sluit ...
A brief encounter with Obama
Flight to Washington was short and sweet. But as you read previously.. security was TIGHT!!! The silly thing was we ended up flying over Toronto on our way to Seoul. ...
What to pack?
... -Business Cards -Cash Extra: -C*’s Suit -Gift for C*’s Family -Wedding Gift --- I'm off in 3 hours to take a $5.50 overnight bus from Washington, D.C. to Boston. A bit of stuff to finish up til then, so I'm off to take care of those items now! ...
So much has happened!!
... bus to DC. We went on a night tour of the city and saw sites like Capitol Centre, Lincoln Memorial, Jefferson Memorial, Washington Memorial, the memorials for both the Korean and Vietnam wars and the White House. While we were at the Jefferson Memorial, ...
Washington
Stayed at HI in Washington, friendly crowd, saw some museum... The White House is smaller then I remembered ...
Washington DC stop
... are very pleasant and soft spoken when asking for our order and if we need anything else. After lunch we headed toward Washington DC for an all day sightseeing of the capital. Each time we are close to the city limit our GPS started acting ...
oppdateringer fra US
Siden sist har jeg tatt bilde med Hillary Clinton, håndhilst på Jude Law, besøkt FN og spist lunsj i FN delegasjonenes kantine, vært i New York: Ellis Island, Frihetsgudinnen, sett Chicago på Broadway og gjort masse annet ...
Washington DC
A great vacation. One of our familiest first and biggest ventures. Well, I shouldn't say first; just biggest, for the time ...
George & Martha's Place
... ;We only arrived at 3pm and they start closing at 4:00pm... What a surprise - after the absolutely huge monuments to George Washington throughout the city, we expected his estate mansion to be quite spectacular - the brief glimpses you see of it in ...
Bus ride
The bus ride to DC was so long. The only way I think we survived the boredom was the videos. Even though I really couldn't sleep with them playing. We stopped at some pretty interesting truck stops along the way. People from the south are so cool when ...
A little stop on our way to Africa
We got off on time out of St. Louis.. arrived 15 min. early. It was a tiny little plane you could feel every move. I saw a few people grab for their bags. We made a few friendship bracelets on the plan... hope to make more for the ...
Let's go see DC
... in from College Park, MD. We just spent five days at the U of M with Odyssey of the Mind World Finals. Seven us headed to DC on the metro. It took about 20 minutes and we changed from the green line to red at Chinatown then onto Dupont Circle to walk to ...
Let's go see DC
Slept great...off around 10 am for another great sightseeing day in DC. Grabbed a breakfast treat at Panera's and then took the metro over to the Federal Triangle metro stop and walked over to the American History Museum. Walked around the museum for ...
Let's go see DC
Today we got up early to tour the Library of Congress. We arrived at 8:30 and the tour was wonderful. The library is beautiful. The tour took about two hours and then we wanted to eat lunch. We found a sandwich shop called Cozi. It was good. Bob and I ...
Vertrek en aankomst in Washington!
... wat boodschappen en iets te eten. We kwamen na wat omzwervingen rond 20 uur aan in het Sheraton in Arlington, dat ligt tegen Washington DC aan. Onze kamer keek uit op het Washington monument en een deel van de State Capitol! Heel gaaf, zeker s'avonds met ...
White Out!!!!
... were drunk and a good time had by all. We were given plenty of tips on where to go in DC, a list that was already full!! Washington is amazing in that most of the museums galleries and monuments are totally free to visit and easy to reach by ...
Sunday in Washington DC
... the Metro Station is we can get to and from our destination by only walking 5 blocks. We were told that the streets in DC were designed in such a manner as to confuse the enemy, it seems to work on the tourist also. We found the blue line ...