We left New York for Washington D.C. in the morning by catching the 7:00am Chinatown bus. The bus was absolutely packed are all four of us was lucky to get a seat. The rest of the journey was uneventful as we were all catching up on lost sleep. We arrived in about 3 hours and for a change we booked up to stay in a Comfort Inn Hotel which are similar to the travel lodges back at home. This was luxury compared to the hostel we stayed in previously. We had our own TV, air conditioning, phone and even a microwave. And to top it all off we was entitled to a buffet breakfast!

We didn’t stay long in hotel when we arrived and got stuck right in to the sights. We went and saw the big sights; the Capitol building, Washington Monument and the Lincoln memorial.

CAPITOL BUILDING AND WASHINGTON MONUMENT

This was no easy task as the distance bewteen the Lincoln memorial and the Capitol building is approximately 2.5 miles! There are so many museums, galleries and war memorials in between to see which meant it made more sense to travel on foot visiting each site along the way. In the end we walked from the Captiol building to the Lincoln memorial and back about 6 times which totals about 15 miles! This is because there was no tickets left to get up the Washington memorial causing us to come back the next day, we went back past the capitol building to catch a beer at Capitol city brewery, being indecisive in the museums we wanted to go to and to take some night shots of the city which we got vey few of!

LINCOLN MEMORIAL

We could easily add miles for walking to the president’s household (White house), for the guided tour of the US Bureau of Printing and Engraving where my lifetime’s salary passed through my eyes and for repeatedly visiting Union station many times for baggage reasons.

We have certainly seen a few muesums (Washington has tons if you like them. Most are free) and memorials here of which came the cost of tired feet. We ended up staying in Washington for one day and a half which was more than planned. We left washington at about 7pm for Philadelphia, by then we were shattered and had plently of time to reach the hostel by 12am or so we thought…..

to be continued….