At the end of the walking tour, I ask our guide for a couple of recommendations for food and drink. He suggests The original Ben’s Chilli Bowl, a Washington landmark, and where countless people in the public eye have dined, from Presidents to movie stars to foreign dignitaries. It’s a short bus ride up to U […]
Washington
More Monuments and Memorials
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, […]
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 […]