While in DC, I dined at some excellent restaurants and drank at superlative bars: Afghania, The Hamilton, Off the Record at the Hay Adams, Round Robin at the Willard Hotel, and others I neglected to take note of.
I attended a service at the National Cathedral. It had been a while since I have been to a service, which is ok because I don’t sin much any more. Toured Mount Vernon, the White House, the US Capitol, the National African American Museum of History and Culture, and the Library of Congress. Visited many of the monuments, including some new ones: FDR, MLK, and WWI.
Washington National Cathedral on a gray drizzly Sunday morning.A brief snippet of post-service organ music, along with some idle worshippers.The bells! The bells! My search for Quasimodo proved fruitless.The Women’s Viet Nam Memorial.The Korean Conflict Memorial.Franklin and Fala.A UN person.I bet you don’t have a single spoon warmer in your mansion. The White House has them in abundance.This plane was the first trainer for the Tuskegee Airmen. It is at the National African American Museum of History and Culture.A bit of the beauty that is the Library of Congress.This is how people eat and drink in Washington.
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4 responses to “Wonderful Washington, Part 2”
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Looks like a great visit to our nation’s Capitol, perhaps your last one in the before-times! Glad to see that you’re still adventuring around the country.
Cathedrals are always amazing. The one in DC has the ashes of one of its builders mixed into some mortar. There was quite a fuss about it but it’s still there. Amazing sounds and beauty. Thank you. I take this as my 86th birthday card from you. hahahahaha
Adding videos is a rich way of sharing your life’s journey. Truly, my only quibble with this excellent post is the groundless assertion that you don’t sin as much. No less, I’m certain.
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