Heading further North to meet our daughter in DC, we overnighted at Flying J for gas/dinner/wifi and a parking spot. Well it was a first for us as we usually use Interstate rest areas. The food was lousy, the internet slow and gas pumps crowded, not my cup of tea. we arrived Friday morning around 11 a.m. at Cherry Hill RV park. Seems they had a 3 day rainy spell and sites where wet to muddy, ours was the latter, it was an adequate park and easy for access to DC as the Greenbelt station is a 2 mile drive down the beltway. The drive in was error free and not bad at all, I guess it helps to hit the beltway after rush hour, say 9:30 or later.
All i can say about DC is that if you have never been there you need to go, this was my 3rd visit and I am still finding new museums, memorials and places to go. Twelve years ago I saw the new Korean War memorial and hated it, this time I saw it at night and it was haunting, completely different effect. The night time tour overall we thought was a bust but we did discover the FDR memorial and it's many faceted "rooms", quite nice. Our daughter Amy came in from NYC on the AMTRACK to see DC with us and we had a great time together, we will also see her in NYC in a few weeks when we get up there.We picked her up at Union Station and had a Capitol tour from John McCain's Senate staff and as we exited the Senate subway and mounted the stairs to the Senate chambers Senator Kerry was descending, only interesting person we saw on the DC trip.The second day we toured the Holocaust museum and it took over 4 hours to see it all, a tremendous amount of information and pictures/displays to process and so disturbing, but something every person should visit. Our daughter had heard of the new Spy museum so the third day we left Mom home and went there and also walked Dupont Circle and Embassy Row, rather interesting architecture for sure, especially the Brewers Castle, his brewery was at the present site of the Kennedy Center.
The spy museum was 3 floors of real cool stuff! The shoe phone, 007's Aston Martin and a lot of hands on stuff (for the kids) and virtually the history of spying which had it's start in the Bible. Think about that for awhile! The Ford theatre was around the corner from the museum but it's closed for restoration. We still have places to see in DC and next visit I will get on line reservations months in advance for 2 places, the Washington monument and the White House, we also need to visit the Library of Congress which was closed on the day we had set aside for it (Sunday) so we visited the Postal museum. Wow, what a treat, it is a neat exhibit, well done and entertaining and you will be surprised by the history I am sure. We spent several hours there, sent special postcards and viewed an exquisite stamp collection with stamps that started in 1841! there is so much to see/do in DC that I could go on forever. Just go!
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