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Highlights of our 7 weeks touring Washington DC

09/24/2022

Sept 18-Andrews Air Force Base airshow

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Sept 17-Dupont Circle neighborhood

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Sept 16-World War I memorial

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Sept 16-Photos from our visit to Logan Circle neighborhood

09/19/2022

Old Stone House in Georgetown. Built in 1765 this is the oldest original house in Washington DC. There are tours through it but the day we were there it was closed so we did not go in.

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Sept 15-Chesapeake and Ohio Canal runs through Georgetown. 184 mile long canal that runs between Washington DC and Cumberland Maryland. There is a nice pathway along the canal which we walked along for a ways.

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September 15- we decided to visit the Georgetown neighborhood in Washington today. These are some pictures from the wharf.

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Sept 14 - pictures from our visit to the WWII Memorial.

09/14/2022

Sept 14-our visit to the Washington Monument. This was an absolute must see, the views from the top of the tower are spectacular!

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Sept 13-Arlington national Cemetery

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Sept 12-Photos from the national Museum of American history

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Sunday Sept 11 - We went to a chamber music performance at the French embassy. I took very few photos that day.

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Saturday Sept 10 we walked back to the natural history museum to revisit some exhibits. A few photos of some places we visited that day.

09/09/2022

Sept 09. We spent the day at the Smithsonian‘s national zoo. I only took 222 photos. 13,274 steps later Pat is exhausted. Here are a few of the photos.

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Sept 08. After the national archives we stopped at the Old Ebbitt Grill right beside the Whitehouse for lunch. It was founded in 1876 and is the oldest saloon in Washington. As a boarding house the Ebbit guest list reads like a Who’s Who of American history. President McKinley said to have lived there during his tenure in Congress and president’s Ulysses S Grant, Andrew Johnson, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, and Warren Harding refreshed themselves at the stand around bar.

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Sept08 spent the morning at the National Archives Museum. all the important and historic government documents are kept here. Constitution, Declaration of Independence etc. no photography allowed inside. It was OK to see but probably my least favorite museum so far.

09/08/2022

Martin Luther King memorial September 7

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Korea War Memorial Sept 07

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Vietnam war memorial Sept 07

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Abraham Lincoln memorial September 7

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Smithsonian African American history and culture museum Sept 07

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Sept 06 US Botanic garden

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Sept 06 Outside the US Capitol

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Sept 06 Library of Congress-Thomas Jefferson Building. This is the largest library in the world containing over 164 million items in 470 languages. The building itself is a simply stunning piece of architecture inside.

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Sept 05 Museum of natural history

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Old post office and clock tower Washington DC. Built in the 1890s. Was the General post office until 1914. Building was nearly demolished several times it is now on the national register of historic places. it was leased to the Trump organization in 2013 and it was a redeveloped into the Trump international Hotel which opened in 2016. The lease was sold in 2022 and it is now the Waldorf Astoria Washington. The clock tower is now maintained by the national park service and provides tours. The pictures were taken from the windows of the clock tower on our tour on Sept 05.

09/07/2022

Traveled to Old Town Alexandria after visiting Mt Vernon and spent the night and the next day there looking around. Some pics of Old Town. We were there on the Labor Day long weekend.

09/06/2022

These pictures were taken as we walked around the estate. There is also a very impressive museum on site with Washington’s complete life history. The man was a farmer who became a great military leader and rose to the rank of general. throughout his life he served his country in several wars. General George Washington was in command of the army as they fought the British to gain American independence. After they won their independence he became the first president of United States. He was also instrumental in ratifying the American Constitution. After serving as president he went back to farming in Virginia and died there at the age of 67. I get the sense that without this man the America that we know today would not exist. I should also add that as he grew older he thought that slavery was wrong and should be abolished be he did not think his young country could do this yet without tearing itself apart.

09/06/2022

On Sunday, September 4 we took a water taxi to take us down the Potomac to George Washington’s estate at Mount Vernon

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Saturday, September 3 we visited the museum of American history. The museum had impressive displays of all of America’s wars. Especially the Civil War which was done in great depth and detail with very impressive displays.

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