Miles today: 394 Miles to date: 394
Where are we again? Washington DC
Fun fact: A common misconception about the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC (pictured right) is that it offers a faithful likeness of the man himself. But in actual fact, Lincoln was not twenty feet tall while seated. It is true, however, that he did have a bit of a penchant for very tall hats.
The Day’s Events: After very little sleep last night because of a Squeeze concert (not to mention a moderate-to-severe case of nervous excitement) we got up at 5am this morning to make the 9am flight to DC. After checking in our bags at our DC hotel, we wandered off into the blistering heat (a good 90 degrees) towards the Lincoln Memorial. As you can tell from the photo, we were not feeling quite capable of doing much more after this, so we trundled back to the hotel (via the pretty impressive Korean War, WWII, and George Washington Memorials) for a few hours of air conditioned kip. We’ve since ventured back out as far as the Froggy Bottom Pub round the corner for a pizza and a pint, but we are truly knackered and must go to bed now if we are to get in a full 12 hours of sight-seeing tomorrow.
Despite doing little today, we can tell you that our first impressions of DC are very favourable. It seems an attractive and safe place, and the people are extremely friendly; we have had more exchanges of pleasantries and smiles with random strangers here today than in the whole of the last 11 months spent in Boston.
Off to a good start, we reckon.
On that note, we'll leave you with...
Ted's Photo Blog
Ted's Photo Blog
A picture of me, Ted, on the flight to DC.
1 comment:
With regard to your comment on the greater friendliness of the people in Washington, I suspect one of the findings of this trip may be that many of your previous generalisations about the USA were really generalisations about New England. Or else all the people greeting you were foreign tourists!
By the way, the tourist bits of Washington may be safe, but the crime figures suggest that other bits aren't. However, the most dangerous city in America last year was ... watch out ... St Louis. Memphis is also in the Worst Ten, so hey - be careful out there!
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