Fri 8 May 2009
Washington DC in an hour
Posted by Ken Atherton under vacation
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I had the good fortune to attend a business meeting in Maryland today, and even better, the meeting ended in time for me to get a chance to do a very, very brief bit of sightseeing.
As you can guess from the title of this post, the part of Maryland I was in was very close to Washington DC. So I drove into Washington to spend a little time walking the National Mall. In the short time I was there, I walked to the Washington Monument, the World War II Memorial, the Vietnam War Memorial, the Lincoln Memorial and the White House. Not bad for an hour. Obviously, I didn’t spend much time at any one place, but I did get some exercise and the walk was certainly more interesting than traipsing through our neighborhood for the umpteenth bazillionth time.
I did have one small scare though. I parked my car by what I thought was east of the Washington Monument and was quite surprised to find that my car wasn’t where I thought it was when I got back. It turns out I had actually parked to the north of the monument, and I figured this out only after staring at the picture below. I knew I had taken the shot just after I crossed the street from my car, and the position of the buildings behind the monument helped me figure out the angle.
