Washington settles in your bones like a damn good city should. Its really a beautifully planned city with regulations about skyscraper height to ensure it maintains its similar-to-Paris look with circles of byways radiating out from the center. The metro subway system is one of the best I have experienced! Cherokee and Navaho guided tour of the new Museum of the American Indian. Wow! Museums are not how I remember them.
International Spy Museum with the stories of intrigue and misadventure. My favourite articles were the doggy-do-do surveillance camera and the chance to take on a new persona.
Colombia heights became my home with its great cultural mix of Hispanic, African American etc. Last night I took mum on a tour of the nations monuments at night (on the phone!). What a wonderful way to learn about America.
Loved the history of Georgetown with its terrace homes and a canal straight outa Venice. I was surprised at how beautiful such a large place both in population and power. The French designer still rings in the emanation of European style and ornamentation.
The holocaust museum was a good as everyone had told me and of course very moving. Almost to the point I feel the need to be silent on it. I found the information about Sedan's Darfur current Genocide a place for me to act. You can access info about the emergency, and your role here: www.ushmm.org/conscience.
Oh the Capitol, that gorgeous domed building with the lady of freedom on the top. Early start to get in the line for tickets and stashing empty water bottles in the manicured gardens I shuffled around with the hundreds of Americans on the carved marble to see where congress sits and the most powerful nation in the world makes the big decisions. everything seemed in order. LOTS of statues.
