I've never been a beach person - nor much of a water person for that matter - there are only lakes and rivers in the land-locked Prairies scoured out of the ground by the glacial action of the last ice age and the meltwaters of the Rocky Mountains .
But, I think I could be... Place name links like Carolina Beach, NC go to Wikipedia. Place name links like Carolina Beach use the local tourism or government website.
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Washington has a lot to see. Day 1 we spent walking the National Mall from one end to the other and then back, with a stop in the National Gallery of Art . The day was dull and grey, though not cold.
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| The Capitol Building, west view from the Library of Congress | |
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The Justice Buiding was undergoing renovations and had a trompe l'oeil facade in place. |
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| The Capitol Building, east view from the National Mall | |
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<-- Ulysses S. Grant
The Washington monument eastward. |
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| On either side of the mall there are museums and art galleries and other monuments. We blew through the National Gallery of Art in about an hour, a very unreasonable pace for the sizable collection that is there. I took a stupid number of pictures and will put them into a separate section from our walk through the mall. Just walking the mall and looking at what's there from outdoors is a full-day affair but we really pushed the pace. Actually, I pushed the pace and TFS was a total trooper in following me. |
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Smithsonian Castle |
Natural History Museum | |
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Washington Monument | |
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World War Two Monument with pillars for each of the 50 states.
The Lincoln Memorial is in the distance. | |
Now, on to the Lincoln Memorial, at the other end of the mall from the Capitol Building.
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Having reached the east end of the mall, time to turn back west.
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The Vietnam Memorial |
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| The White House had a Christmas tree up, surrounded by model trains and other Christmas trees for each of the 50 states. Barack and Michele were nowhere to be seen, but that's not very surprising - we hadn't called ahead. In a field behind the tree was a large menorrah and people celebrating Hanukkah. |
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One last pass by the Capitol buildingat dusk, with its tree lit.
What you can't see is the stage erected for the Inauguration ceremony, and all the security fencing. | |
The National Gallery of Art
More art than I've ever seen in one place at one time. The Gallery is a series of interlinked rooms representing different periods or styles of art. I took a ton of pictures, but photographing classic art is like photographing the ocean: you just have to be there.
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van Gogh | |
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Monet | |
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Gaugin | |
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Degas | |
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Renoir | |
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Rousseau | |
Toulouse-Lautrec | |
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Renoir / Cassatt | |
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Monet | |
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Seurat | |
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Manet | |
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da Vinci | |
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Botticelli | |
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Raphael | |
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Titian | |
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Bellini | |
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Dürer | |
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Dürer | |
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Rubens | |
Rubens | |
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Hobbema | |
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Rembrandt | |
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Rembrandt | |
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Vermeer | |
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Vermeer | |
I took a lot more photos, and passed up chances for many more, so visit their website to see the full collection. |
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