What a beautiful day to go to Washington DC. There is a Penn station about a 10 min drive from Ft Meade so we planned to take the train to Union Station and hop on the Metro, however as with all well laid plans that did not work out! To our surprise the train only runs M-F and not on Sat. So we made the 20 mile drive into DC with our big F250. We found a metro station on the outskirts of the city where there was free parking along the street. So we parked a...

We visited Washington DC in 2002 with the boys but we never made it to the National Zoo. With Busch Gardens Tampa always near by other zoo's always seemed to be a disappointment. However I have to say Don and I enjoyed the National Zoo. We saw the giant Panda's which you won't find at Busch Gardens. The zoo is nicely laid out however we were disappointed that many of the animals were not in their compounds due to bad weather the previous day.