Taking up from where we , our group wends itself across to the Korean War Veterans Memorial. America has learned from it’s past, and again the Memorial has a distinctive design. It opens with life size figures of a platoon in V formation moving through the jungle. From there it moves to a memorial wall, […]
Month: May 2016
Baltimore (or less) and Philly
There is so much more to see and do in Washington – Arlington, the Pentagon, FBI headquarters. Whilst I do pass the last of these on the bus (tick), time is getting short and I still have to get to Philly, NYC and to the Canadian border. Charlotte and I head North – to Baltimore, MD. […]
Washington Monuments
The free walking tour is a 4 hr tour around the National Mall. This is where all the great DC monuments are located – the Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, WWII, Korean and Vietnam War memorials, the Jefferson, FDR and Martin Luther King Jr memorials etc. We meet near the Jefferson Memorial, and by the time […]
The Nation’s Capital
After reacquainting Charlotte with her home town, and having experienced it’s wonders for a couple of well lubricated days, it’s time to head north. Time is quickly running out – I only have 14 days left before my visa runs out and too much to see and do. Our destination is Washington, DC, usually around […]