5/25/2024. Left New York after having a light breakfast in the terrace of the hotel.

Took a bus MEGABUS to Washington. Not good service, Mega only the name, very tight!

Driving through Washington and at the bus station.

Got to the hotel: Sonder the Quincy. Super nice. Sonder.com for future hotel stays.

Found a market around the corner, got a great sandwich and a salad, had our drink. LOL, watch a movie in Netflix and went to bed. Thunderstorm during the night! Beautiful sunny day in the morning.

5/26/2024

Walking to the White House.

Last picture is the TREASURY DEPARTMENT. An image of this building is in the back of the ten dollar bill. In the front the statue of Albert Gallatin who founded the New York University and was a US Secretary of the Treasury.

Kept walking and we reached the Washington Memorial. From afar we could see the Jefferson Memorial.

We stop by the National World War II Memorial. Service, Sacrifice, Unity and Victory. Each column has the name of each of the 50 States.

By now 82 degrees, but we found a way to walk on a green beautiful and shady area. We reached the Lincoln Memorial. The 16th President of the United States who guided the contra through civil war and freed millions of enslaved persons.

We were leaving the Lincoln Memorial to come back to the hotel when we encounter a Motorcycle parade from War Veterans

And the day ended, planning dinner 🙂

5/27/24

After a stormy night, with lightening and thunder we got up to have a light breakfast – Called to have bagel delivered! We felt that we deserved to be spoiled LOL

The day was bright and sunny. We started the day by the Washington monument. (El Obelisco en la 9 de Julio),

Went to the Airspace Museum, but we could not enter, needed to have a pass, we got one for the next day at 3:00 PM. We kept on walking on Capitol Mall and reached the American Holocaust museum, where there is a database of Holocaust Survivor and Victims Names.

Kept walking and passed the Institution Building (The Castle) it opened in 1855, and it is closed for renovation. Very interesting story: James Smithsonian, a scientist, left his fortune to a nephew with the stipulation that, if the nephew die without heirs, the money go “to the United States of America, to found at Washington (place he never set foot)under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge. The nephew died, and the museum complex was born.

We walked towards the National museum of American History, when we saw something going on. It was the Memorial Day Parade. So emotional again!!!

First pictures, a WWII veteran 100 years old!

Dinner at a Peruvian restaurant called Pisco and Nazca, a ceviche Gastrobar, we had ceviche, amazing and Jackie had a Pisco not sour with some fruit, and I had a White sangria with blueberries. Very good.

5/28/2024

Last day of our vacation. We started at the Arlington Cemetery, visited Kennedy Eternal Flame, where President Kennedy, his wife Jackie and two of her children. Our next site was the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier where we saw changing of the guard, again a very emotional ceremony.

And the Tomb of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court Justice of the United States.

After the Cemetery, we walk around the Capitol.

The Vietnam Wall (where Jackie found the name of his uncle who died in the war at age 18!) and the Korean Wall.

By now, is close to 3 PM and we had a ticket to go to the AirSpace Museum. Impressive to see the evolution of air transportation!

Wing Starfighter – Invented for Star Wars

And we are done for the day!!!!!! And the trip!!!!!

5/29/2024. Going to the airport! Jackie going home by United, I by Alaska airlines.