Around The World In 80 Waves

I am still not sober when we pull in to Union Station, and for some reason nobody wanted the seat next to me on the trip. Cab to the hostel to dump my bags and then enjoy being chauffeured around the US capitol by a tour company with narration to save me any effort at all.

• Ford Theatre (where Abraham Lincoln was shot)
• Pentagon
• Capitol Buildings
• Supreme Court
• FBI Headquarters
• Department of Treasury
• All the Smithsonian Museums (gutted not to have enough time to be able to hold a piece of Moon rock exhibited in the Air and Space museum.)
• Library of Congress
• Jefferson Memorial
• Lincoln Memorial
• Washington Monument
• Site of the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan
• Embassy District (frightening half the passengers with a Wooo-Hooo at the British Embassy)
• Georgetown