OK here's part two of my trip - went on to DC from Richmond via Amtrak for a campus visit to American University.  Didn't have much time of sighting seeing but took these pictures when I had the chance. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Brookings Institution.

Cafe' break.

 

 

 

I just thought this was an interesting looking gas station.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last shots before sunset.

Ulysses Grant on top of his horse - Cincinnati.

 

 

Yay!

nice.  Do i see cherry blossoms?

Beautiful.

 

Although it's been a long time, I remember that some of those escalators to the Metro stations were amazing. There was one -- might it have been Foggy Bottom? -- that was like a journey to the center of the earth. I don't know how deep the station was, but I remember that my friend - Big Sissy - had hold onto me and ride with his eyes closed.

 

And Daniel Burnham's Union Station is glorious; it's what a station in the nation's capital ought to be, and the restoration was a stunning transformation from the leaky-roofed dump it had deteriorated into.

I believe Tenleytown is the longest escalator.

 

EDIT: I looked it up and it's apparently the Wheaton station that has the longest escalator.

Tenleytown, Dupont, and Woodley Park-Adams Morgan all have incredibly long escalators.  Foggy Bottom's is really not that long at all.

I love the clouds in that first pic...nice stuff.

I love DC. Only drawback, to many politicians in one location.

I was there yesterday!  Nice shots.

Nice!