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Originally posted by pushpills@Jun 7 2004, 03:17 PM
I'm going to be in D.C. 18-20th, my and my brothers fathers day gift to my dad.
Aside from the obvious walking by the whitehouse, going to smithsonian, the monuments, etc...is there anything I wouldn't think of or see on a traditional tourist type tour?
we havent booked any specific tours yet, wondering if there's anything that the typical tourist misses that you really were glad you saw.
anyway we can't get into the whitehouse cuzz you have to request passes 6 months in advance thanks to 9-11.
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Depends on how many days you are actually in DC for...
The monuments are not really all that close to each other and parking can be a bitch...
So, give yourself at least one full day of walking for trhe monuments...
If you are also going to visit Arlington, give yourself a day for that...
The smithsonian is more than one building, many different parts.. You could spend several weeks just on the smithsonian....
If that does not give you enough, you can always take the "underside" tour, you know... Visit the watergate to see where deepthroat passed all his/her info on. Visit Georgetown to see where Monica lived at, thaen of course you could go walk around in the parks to see if there are any bodies laying around that a senator or someone might have left... Lets see, oh yeah, don't miss the spot across from the capitol where Dan Quayle used to go tyo buy his cocaine.. Then of course there is the Vince Foster suicide spot.... Lots to do in D.C.
info on sightseeing DC:
http://www.si.edu/visit/sightseeing.htm
More :Welcome to the Smithsonian Institution, the world's largest museum complex and research organization. Composed of 14 museums and the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., and 2 museums in New York City, the Smithsonian's exhibitions offer visitors a glimpse into its vast collection numbering over 142 million objects.
http://www.si.edu/visit/
Last edited by sarettah at Jun 7 2004, 03:42 PM