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icepixieSo! I think my parents and I have decided to go to Washington, DC, in the second week of June. (Since we're driving, we're going to stop here along the way, too.*)
I plan to spend as much time as humanly possible in the Smithsonian buildings, but what else should we do? Myself, I like museums/history museums, interesting architecture, and flowers. Presumably the National Mall provides all of these things in abundance (maybe not the flowers), but will we miss interesting things by limiting ourselves to that area?
I also have the lifelong inlander's natural response to journeying within fifty miles of an ocean, namely, OOOOH A BEACH I MUST LOOK AT IT! I am assuming this is feasible as a day-trip sort of thing, since we'll have a car, but am not entirely certain. Suggestions?
* We are not foolish enough to try and drive around DC. The plan is to stay at a hotel in a VA suburb on the Metro's blue line, as it goes directly to the stop labeled "Smithsonian," and take the Metro into the city in the morning and back out in the evenings.
I plan to spend as much time as humanly possible in the Smithsonian buildings, but what else should we do? Myself, I like museums/history museums, interesting architecture, and flowers. Presumably the National Mall provides all of these things in abundance (maybe not the flowers), but will we miss interesting things by limiting ourselves to that area?
I also have the lifelong inlander's natural response to journeying within fifty miles of an ocean, namely, OOOOH A BEACH I MUST LOOK AT IT! I am assuming this is feasible as a day-trip sort of thing, since we'll have a car, but am not entirely certain. Suggestions?
* We are not foolish enough to try and drive around DC. The plan is to stay at a hotel in a VA suburb on the Metro's blue line, as it goes directly to the stop labeled "Smithsonian," and take the Metro into the city in the morning and back out in the evenings.
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Date: 2010-05-20 09:36 pm (UTC)Keep in mind that with the exception of a few days down on the Gulf in Alabama several years ago, all my beach experience has been in the UK, where half the beaches are not so much "beach" as "some gravel and some water, in those few places where the whole thing isn't bound by a retaining wall." I have low, low standards. ;)
We were thinking about Chincoteague/Assateague (PONIES!!), but they're a bit far for a day trip. They would make more sense if we went there from DC, then went back to I-81 via the Norfolk area, but I took one look at that 20 mile-long Bay Bridge/Tunnel thing about had a heart attack, so that's out of the question.
I am all about free touristy stuff. Dupont Circle does look nifty, though. (As does the--not free, sadly--International Spy Museum!)