Showing posts with label National Mall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label National Mall. Show all posts
Friday, August 19, 2022

A Short Bus Ride Later

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Though I was done with the Obscure Monuments Tour, I didn't leave DC right away. I took the Circulator bus (just $2!) back to the main p...
Friday, August 12, 2022

Obscure Monuments Tour part 4--The end of the Road

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After clearing FDR we came back to our main purpose of obscure monuments. One of the smallest monuments in the area is the Japanese Pagoda m...
Friday, July 29, 2022

Obscure Monuments Tour part 2--Obscure or Hard to Reach?

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 The ranger met us at the WWII memorial kiosk and our first stop was the John Paul Jones memorial. I've seen this statue many times so I...
Friday, July 22, 2022

Obscure Monuments Tour part 1--Mall Time Again

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 In November 2016 I made a trip down to DC again. I traveled after my Saturday morning Zumba class (which is why I look frazzled in the phot...
Friday, March 25, 2022

Monumental Memories

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 I walked from the Mall toward the Tidal Basin, passing a few well-known statues. I made my way to the MLK memorial where I would meet with ...
Friday, March 18, 2022

On the Mall

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After lunch, I stuck around to take a tour of the tidal basin. As we passed the NPS Information booth on the mall, we were disappointed that...
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Friday, July 3, 2020

50-states part 29: Washington DC

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How appropriate that the post for the weekend of Independence Day features our Nation's capital! There have been so many trips to DC tha...
Friday, August 30, 2019

Baby, it's Cold Outside!

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I was leaving the conference on Friday because I was scheduled to go to my annual scrapbook weekend. That meant I could go to one of the off...
Friday, April 5, 2019

The Spoils of War

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My visit to Arlington Cemetery was to visit a new NPS unit for me. Arlington House was the family home of Robert E. Lee. Because he chose to...
Friday, June 1, 2018

Along the Mall

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My next page is just a few random monuments that I went by on my way back to the Metro. The top left photo is John Paul Jones whose statue i...
Friday, May 25, 2018

Another stop at WWII

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It's just before Memorial Day, so a perfect time to post this visit to the WWII memorial. Until writing this blog, I don't think I...
Friday, February 9, 2018

Convention in the Capital--part 2: Monuments and Memorials

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These 2 layouts are actually taken out of order from the album, but the content was such that they really belong in the same blog post. So t...
Friday, February 2, 2018

Convention in the Capital--part 1: The annual meeting

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In early August 2011 the National Park Travelers Club held their 9th annual convention at the National Mall. Jim and I drove down after work...
Saturday, April 1, 2017

No foolin--this was a trip to the mall!

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Well, I just couldn't pass up the pun so I am adding a 2nd installment this weekend in honor of April Fools Day. This layout is another ...
Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Another trip to Washington D.C.

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Well, I'm on my 2nd snow day thanks to Winter Storm Stella so I thought I'd post another entry. Today I highlight a trip my husband ...
Saturday, January 28, 2017

Back to the Mall

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Another trip to DC. This one is with my husband Jim. It was an extremely cold weekend and I'm surprised we got to see so many things ...
Monday, January 9, 2017

A couple of "firsts"

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I have researched my scrapbooks and my first page of a National Park visit is this 2-page layout to Gettysburg in 1988. My Uncle Larry and h...