…while the whole wide world is fast asleep…. Sounds like a song. (It actually is, written by David Mann and Bob Hilliard.) It has nothing to do with our adventures today, except for the hour. Are you ready for this? Per the plan, we set the alarm for 5:00 am. At 5:30, we were in the car heading for the Greenbelt Metro station. A half-hour trip on the Green line brought us to L'Enfant Plaza Metro station, where we transferred to the Red line to the...

We had thought to go into DC today to revisit the Lincoln Memorial and have lunch at Ben's Chili Bowl (apparently a DC must), but as the morning grew incredibly hotter and muggier, we decided on an alternate plan. We would get up early tomorrow and go into town before the heat melted us.So, instead, today we hung around the RV and napped, went to the pool, napped, had ice cream, napped (you get the idea). This was a good, do-nothing day. As there is almost no...

Today we went back into the city to try to get into the American History Museum and to finish seeing the Air and Space Museum. First was Air and Space, and we spent most of the morning there. We had lunch in their very noisy cafeteria, then set off for American History. (Yikes, I just got a flashback to high school, although American History in high school wasn't bad. I got the best naps in that class. You know, that could explain why I was so surprised to fi...

Today, we went to Mt. Vernon, which was, of course, the home of George and Martha Washington. The estate is absolutely beautiful; it sits right on the shores of the Potomac, about 30 miles or so south of DC.Here are a few of the things we did:- Started with a 20-minute orientation movie- Went on a tour of the main house- Saw George Washington's tomb- Had lunch in the restaurant (we highly recommend the peanut and chestnut soup and the chicken pot pie—ev...

We've had a reservation for a Capitol tour for about three months. We got up early on Monday to make sure we got there in plenty of time. We decided to drive to the Greenbelt Metro station, about 10 minutes from our RV spot. This, actually, worked out well. It really only took 10 minutes, and the drive was easy. We got on the Metro, zipped into town, and popped our heads out at the Capitol South Metro station.By the time we walked through the visitors' e...