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Post by whollygoats on Sept 26, 2016 20:09:50 GMT
Tomorrow morning, I fly off for Washington, DC, for four days.
I'm going to visit the Udvar-Hazy Center of the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum. It was opened just last year at Dulles International Airport (which is not in Washington, or even DC, but in Chantilly, Virginia, across the Potomac River) and is getting rave reviews from aircraft buffs.
This will also serve as a 'travel trial' for me, post-surgery, in preparation for a more extended and distant trip to the UK next spring.
I can't believe that Microsoft (aka 'Limpdick') screwed me over such that I have to go out and buy a new camera just because they forced my computer in to Windoze 10. I hate Limpdick.
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Post by JoeP on Sept 26, 2016 21:18:36 GMT
The National Museum of African American Culture and History (or History & Culture?) has just opened. Will you be spending time in the "National Mall"?
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Post by Moose on Sept 26, 2016 21:38:09 GMT
Take a photo of yourself outside the Whitehouse for us?
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Post by Kye on Sept 26, 2016 23:07:25 GMT
Have fun, WG!
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Post by whollygoats on Sept 27, 2016 1:35:28 GMT
The National Museum of African American Culture and History (or History & Culture?) has just opened. Will you be spending time in the "National Mall"? Not planned, but if I see what I want at Dulles and have time left over, I'll hop a train in to the Mall and knock around. I've not seen the Native American museum the Smithsonian put up, much less the African-American museum.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Sept 27, 2016 9:45:12 GMT
Have a great time! Hopefully you'll post some pics on facebooks and DG says he wants a report.
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Off to DC
Sept 27, 2016 9:47:23 GMT
via mobile
Post by tangent on Sept 27, 2016 9:47:23 GMT
Best wishes for your trip.
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Post by whollygoats on Oct 3, 2016 1:32:37 GMT
Okay...I'm back home. I've been doing some heavy sleeping because I contracted a rhinovirus along the way (I suspect on theflight in to Dulles). I took my revenge upon the innocents who shared the flight home...poor saps.
I got shiploads of pix, but since I had to purchase a new digital camera before I went, I have now to figure out how to download from it. Being techno-resistant, all I have done so far is to figure how to get the camera to record. Now, I need to figure out how to get it from the camera to the computer. I'm not particularly enthused about that, but, right now I'm an unhappy camper packing a cold.
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Post by whollygoats on Oct 3, 2016 2:26:54 GMT
The National Museum of African American Culture and History (or History & Culture?) has just opened. Will you be spending time in the "National Mall"? I tried. I was standing in the Sackler Gallery, which had been a bit of a disappointment because a good third of their space was closed for new installations, speaking to a docent about how I was disappointed with the Freer Gallery being closed and expressed resignation and said I'd use my time to stumble on over the the African American museum (it was a bit of a jaunt). She asked if I had a ticket. I was clueless. Because it is new, the throngs have to be thinned to make the experience sufferable, so...tickets. I had no tickets and it wasn't likely I was going to get any in the few hours I had available. So, no. I did get to the Native American museum, which was new to me, and enjoyed parts of it. I also went to the Hirshhorn...meh. My foray to the Mall was not particularly successful.
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Post by JoeP on Oct 3, 2016 8:45:26 GMT
Well I hope you recover soon. From the cold and from the disappointing lack of success.
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Post by whollygoats on Oct 3, 2016 14:01:32 GMT
Well I hope you recover soon. From the cold and from the disappointing lack of success. Oh, I'll be fine. Visiting the Smithsonian museums is always a matter of timing. Installations come and go and often the renovations interfere with public access. So be it. I've seen the Sackler and Freer galleries multiple times and the installations have been largely the same (with relatively small traveling exhibits being the changing aspect). Now, if I go back and the Freer is open again, I'll expect a major change in the display installations. Then there is the matter of time...If one wishes to do the Capitol Mall and visit as many museums as possible in any thorough manner at all, one would need to schedule a couple of months in DC. A half day on the Mall basically allowed me to preview one museum I had not yet visited (the Native American museum) and review three I had not visited since my last visit over 20 years ago. The Air & Space building on the Mall looked much as I remembered it from 20 years ago. I have several favorite locations in Washington (and Georgetown) which I did not manage to even get near. And, of course, the climate was, for me, a detriment. I was in Washington proper during some heavy thunderstorms. The rain did not bother me, but the resultant humidity after the rain ceased was cloyingly uncomfortable to a puny Cascadian like me who likes his rain dry and the air he breathes as being the kind unlikely to engender fungal growth. Not like Washington and environs.
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