Washington Monument
Paris has the Eiffel Tower and New York City has the Empire State Building. Washington D.C. has the Washington Monument. It’s one of those structures you see almost anywhere from…
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Starship Enterprise
Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go…
Read MoreFlying Over Liberty
There is a continuous sense of pride and awe as you travel around Washington D.C. That feeling is amplified at night as the monuments are lit with a dramatic flair. We…
Read MoreCapitol Walk-Around
There’s nothing like the relief of being on vacation at a memorable spot and the rain finally stops. You breath a sigh of relief knowing that you no longer have…
Read MoreApollo-Soyuz Test Project
The mid-seventies was a time of transition for NASA. We had completed the Apollo lunar missions and Skylab, a predecessor to a real space station. We knew that to create a working…
Read MoreWorld War II Memorial
As we were walking around the Reflection Pool in Washington D.C., we came upon the World War II Memorial. I must be living under a rock, because I didn’t even…
Read MoreGrumman X-29
You never know what you will find when you visit a new museum. This is just one of the surprises we found at the Air and Space Museum. Look closely. The…
Read MoreThe Spirit of Flight
I have mentioned before how it feels to walk among our country’s history of aviation at the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum. That special feeling hits you the moment you walk…
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Washington Metro
The Washington D.C. Metro.
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