Rails Around the USA:
Summer, 2005
Washington, D. C.
July 26-28, 2005
Laurence Krieg
This part of the site is a bit different from the rest. You can navigate in two ways:
- To see the pictures without details of where I went when, go directly to the picture pages:
- Or you can look through the Brief Tour Journal below, which has links to photos, which you can view or skip as you like. :-)
Brief Tour Journal
July 26 - approximate times
| 12:30 |
— | Arrival at Union Station |
| 13:15 |
— | Metro to Bethesda |
| 13:45 | — | Walking in Woodmont Triangle, trying to find my hotel |
| 14:15 | — | Sandwich and café cubano at café with free WiFi on Wisconsin Avenue, near Battery Lane. Email and mapping to find hotel |
| 16:30 | — | Walk back to hotel; shower |
| 18:00 | — | Walk to Thai restaurant; dinner |
| 19:30 | — | Back to hotel; second shower Discovered free WiFi is available :-) email and search for a Walmart where I could fill a prescription, near public transportation |
July 27 - approximate times
| 8:00 | — | Metro to Fairfax/Vienna intending to take bus to Wal-Mart for prescription I discover busses do not run in that direction in the morning |
| 9:30 | — | Metro to Smithsonian Station |
| Walk on the National Mall to visit monuments: — Lincoln Memorial — Vietnam Memorial — Memorial Bridge — Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial — Jefferson Memorial |
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| 11:00 | — | Return to Smithsonian |
| 13:00 | — | Air and Space Museum Lunch on restaurant mezzanine |
| 15:00 | — | Department of Transportation Metro to VanNess/UDC |
| 15:30 | — | Walk to National Cathedral |
| 16:15 | — | Photo-walk through Cathedral and grounds |
| 17:00 | — | Second camera battery dies: no more photos today |
| 17:15 | — | Walk/bus to Friendship Heights |
| 18:00 | — | Supper at Panera Thunderstorm and deluge Email etc. using Panera WiFi |
| 19:30 | — | Metro to Bethesda Hotel, shower, bed |
July 28 - approximate times
| 7:30 |
— | Photo-walk through Bethesda |
| 10:30 |
— | Check out of hotel Metro to Union Station |
| 11:30 | — | Pick up ticket for Acela |
| 11:45 | — | Board Acela to Boston |
| 12:00 | — | Acela leaves |