Vacation Logs
DC Vacation Day Four
Today we got up and headed to the National Museum of Natural History. It was excellent, second only to the Air & Space Museum. (The Jim Henson one is so awesome that it is useless to compare anything else to it.) I took a bunch of pictures, but only about half of them turned out [...]
DC Vaction Day Three
Day three was not as good as day two. My foot has been killing me all day. We headed down to the Mall intending to hit the National Book Festival. However, the place was absolutely mobbed, and we had no real drive to see any of the authors or anything (I wasn’t planning on buying [...]
DC Vacation Day Two
Today we got started at the break of about 9:30 or so. Dragged our asses down to the Metro station and hopped on over to the Smithsonian station. The subway right away seemed faster than the one I remember from my trip to Madrid, but it may have been an illusion based on the shorter [...]
DC Vacation Day One
Well, today was the first day of my vacation in Washington, DC. Most of the day was spent driving down here, which took about seven hours. It wasn’t really a bad drive – the traffic at the end (once we got into the city) was pretty bad, traffic jam style. It was mostly bad timing, [...]
