I went to Washington D.C on January 30th here are my thoughts on that trip.
The drive to d.c. was one on which I couldn’t make up my mind because I had two restaurants in Maryland picked out and I kept switching my mind on that or whether I was just going to drive to the national zoo. I was going to go to the boulevard diner in Dundalk Maryland which is really close to Baltimore Maryland. Then it was the iron rooster a restaurant in Annapolis Maryland. I ended up driving to the Iron Rooster for lunch because I missed the turn for the exit to go to the diner. I will write about each restaurant in separate posts. I went to the diner for supper.
When I left the Iron Rooster in Annapolis, I decided to drive to the national zoo. In addition, I got gas before I left the city limits.
The drive to the zoo was nice. Driving in Washington was interesting.
When I got to the zoo (1pm) I parked in a parking lot, near the zoo and walked to the information. I purchased a map for 3 dollars, seemed a little excessive to me.
The wind seemed to enjoy blowing as hard as possible. I guess freezing my ass off in January at a free zoo seemed like the brilliant thing to do at the time. A lot of the animals were outside the other ones were hiding. I guess they were the smart ones. I eventually decided to leave because I had no clue when the holocaust museum closed. When I got to the zoo I decided to leave around 3pm. So I walked around for over 40 minutes trying to find my car. Paranoia is fun when your in an unfamiliar city. When I got to my car I found out that it cost $22 to park at the zoo which seemed really excessive to me... free zoo... liar, liar, pants on fire.
When I left the zoo I drove to the holocaust museum and found free parking. The museum is on the edge of the national mall.
This
museum is powerful. I remembered it from
my senior trip in high school, so I decided years later to come back. I don’t regret it one bit. If you have never been there go to it. When I was leaving I bought a book – the hiding
place.
When
I was driving home, I discovered that my gps system was really out of date and I
think it’s one big reason why it took so long to get home. I also got stuck behind an accident on the
one freeway out of Washington dc. I went
maybe half a mile in a ninty minutes.
I
eventually made the turn for the Boulevard Diner which was on diners, drive-ins
and dives – great show. Yummy, yummy in
my tummy…
I
didin’t like the rest of the drive home because who likes a one lane highway? I didn’t bother to try to get on a freeway.
When
I got home I was exhausted.
Until
next time America
