*Borrowing and translating the 1975 movie title: Il pleut sur Santiago
On our first day, we walked from the hotel near Dupont Circle through a magnificent park to Georgetown. I showed Elisabeth the Kennedy Center and the Watergate complex at the waterfront, memories of times long past. Next, we went to the Mall, which, being a National Park, was closed although accessible. It was deserted except for an occasional tourist or jogger, while the useless streets along the Smithsonian Museums were barred.
The deserted Mall |
The National Gallery of Art is closed during the shutdown of the Federal Government. |
The National Gallery of Art extends its compliments to Le Louvre |
The umbrella was a must. |
The famous Washington fire station, taken through the fogged window of the Big Bus |
At the Union Station's food court |
It's very nice to go trav'ling,
However, not to London, Paris, and Rome, but
To New York, the city that doesn't sleep, where I never get any sleep either,
To my kind of town, Chicago is,
To Madison, where I feel snug among friends,
But it's so much nicer
Yes, it's so much nicer to come home.
However, not to London, Paris, and Rome, but
To New York, the city that doesn't sleep, where I never get any sleep either,
To my kind of town, Chicago is,
To Madison, where I feel snug among friends,
But it's so much nicer
Yes, it's so much nicer to come home.
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Quite a few years ago, my wife and I arrived on the first warm and sunny day in June ... everything was open (non essential) but all the legislatures were gone! I was able to visit the Air and Space Museum several times! It was somewhat the reverse of your trip because sense there were no legislatures in their offices, nothing still was getting done! (essential?)
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