Road Trip Update: Washington, D.C.

We rolled into the ‘burbs surrounding Washington, D.C. last night after a series of events during which it became apparent that the world was conspiring to prevent us from actually reaching any of our goals: finding and getting on the highway, finding restaurants whose existence was only implied by exit signs, finding what to eat in said restaurants when they were finally found, and finding the correct motel at which the reservations were indeed made. I don’t have any photos from the trip up from Nashville through Virginia—the reason, unfortunately, is that there really wasn’t anything to take pictures of, and anyway when I wasn’t driving I was dozing in the passenger seat.

But we got up early this morning and walked around the already astoundingly hot National Mall before I had to say farewell to my travelling companion Alice and see her safely off to the train depot. So I was on my own for the Air and Space Museum, which was every bit as glorious as my pre-teenage mind remembered. Assorted other adventures, including photography of some of the terrific architecture here in D.C., followed; then sushi dinner and Iron Man (for the third time, now, but it hasn’t become any less geigh) with newfound friends; then interesting adventures trying to find where to put the car for the night that wouldn’t necessitate my waking up before 7 am to move it.

Full photo gallery, of course, available here—go look at it; there are 27 new photos today for a total of 80 so far. For now, a smattering:

Next stop: the Philadelphia area up to and including Princeton, New Jersey, and New York City, New York. All right, not really one area, but…deal with it.