DC Travelogue – Day 2
It’s time for part three, day 2, in my series of articles detailing our adventures in DC. For the other articles don’t forget you can hit the ‘dctrip2009‘ tag.
Today we started out by walking to the Lincoln Memorial. This took us by the Iwo Jima memorial, through part of Arlington National Cemetary, and across the Potomac via the Arlington Memorial Bridge. This gets you directly behind the Lincoln Memorial.
After checking out the Lincoln Memorial, and getting some pretty nice shots of the National Mall and reflecting pool, we started walking down towards the WWII memorial. At this point I forgot that we needed to take a side trip to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, but we’ll just catch it another day.
We wandered around the WWII memorial a bit, then headed south through the FDR Memorial Park, along the Tidal Basin, heading for the Jefferson Memorial.
After checking out the Jefferson Memorial we walked up towards the Smithsonian Institute, to get to the metro station nearby. We took the metro back to Rosslyn, did some shopping and ate at Ruby Tuesday, then headed back to the room.
We did a LOT of walking so that was pretty much it for our day. Tomorrow’s plan looks like heading to Smithsonian museums, except the National Air and Space Museum, which gets its own day (probably Thursday).
Today’s pictures are in the Day 2 gallery.
