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We have done guided tours of Congress, the Supreme Court, the Library of Congress and the Pentagon. this trip, we were looking forward to a few others–Georgetown, the State Department’s Diplomatic reception rooms, and especially the White House. We had, for the first time, submitted an application for a White House tour in plenty of […]
Arlington National Cemetery We began this trip with a brief stop at some of the primary visitor stops at Arlington National Cemetery. After a brief orientation at the Visitor Center and walking through the rows upon rows of precisely placed headstones and manicured gravesites, we took an easy half-mile walk to the Kennedy Family gravesite […]
Washington is the ultimate museum city. Not only does it have a huge number of absolutely world-class museums, but it has some that are absolutely unique (such as it’s Museum of American History (aka, “the Nation’s Attic), but many of these museums are absolutely FREE. Not surprisingly, we spend much of our DC time in […]
We have always enjoyed Washington DC for its museums, parks, monuments, and historic neighborhoods. More recent trips showed us another, more recently enhanced side of the city–its restaurants. We generally visit Washington DC around spring (especially cherry blossom season) and autumn. We want to avoid the winter snow and especially the oppressive summer heat and […]
Washington D.C. is another of our favorite cities. We, in fact, lived here for about three months, visit about once a year and plan to live in the city again, for at least another three months. Given this, we know the city quite well, have done most of the things we want to do (or […]