Washington DC. Day 1

Now for some standard siteseeing:



Good first stop Friday morning. First real travel photo with iPhone 3GS, cropped with Cropforfree iPhone app but otherwise unretouched. Have acquired some apps for photo enhancement but have not gone there just yet.

Here's the obligatory view from below Abe's feet looking back to the Washington monument and the Capitol beyond, faintly in left. Unretouched iPhone snap.




Then we walked to the Vietnam Memorial nearby, here is a memorial sculpture near The Wall:



Now for the Wall. We were totally unprepared for the scale and the power of this monument. Highest point inthe center marks the beginning and end of the casualty list in time order, proceding down to the right (east) tapering down to a point, then resuming at a point way to the left meeting Bach center. Here is a shot looking east from the center, Washington monument in the distance:



I edited the above iphone photo with an iphone app Photogene to adjust exposure and contrast, original is very dark. Now tapering down to the east...



And coming to a point down at your feet:



Here is another nice Vietnam memorial sculpure nearby, a female medic tending to a wounded soldier:



I will continue with day one on next post, want to see how this looks on a real webpage with the photos.

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Washington DC Day 0 - planning 101

So here we are at the River Inn before dark, and I decide to build upon my logistical triumphs. Let's walk up to Trader Joe's, I say, only 3 blocks away, bring back food and booze stash for the hotel room mini-kitchen, and THEN go out to dinner. Brilliant. As we head off, it starts pouring down great buckets, but it would be silly to go back for the umbrellas. So there is a nice Thai restaurant next to TJ's, but of course we are soaked to the skin and have this soggy French bread, so back to the hotel. After changing clothes we head out into the clear evening armed with our umbrellas, and make it to the Thai Coast before closing. Fortunately the food was terrific. I had a green curry with chicken, and Georgia had a seafood something or other. I had a Sake-tini, chilled sake with an olive, tasted great, as any alcohol would have at that point.

End of Day 0 in DC.


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Washington DC day 0

Arrived Thursday 23Jul Dulles 5pm. Georgia was waiting for me, having been here since Monday attending a class near Tyson's Corner. She drove her rental car back to the airport, turned it in, and we happily got on the Washington Flyer headed for the metro, at, you guessed it, a mile or so from her hotel. Circular motion required to dump the Yaris and join up for a car-free long weekend in the city.

Zipped into the city on the Orange line, hopped off at Foggy Bottom and we rolled our bags to the hotel in a jiffy, very slick.



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