What to see in D.C.?

[Baptist]

Hey guys,
It looks like I'm going to swing by D.C. in a few weeks. I have no interest in stopping by the Lincoln Memorial, FDR Memorial, or any other celebrations of tyrants. I am going to swing by and check out the Jefferson Memorial, the Constitution at the National Archives, and the statute of Robert Taft.

Is there anything else in D.C. that you liberty lovers think is worth checking out?

[Austrian Econ Disciple]

Check out the museums they have there. Also, for me, deficate on the steps to the Capitol Building please. Thanks! :D

[Paul Revered]

Check out the museums they have there. Also, for me, deficate on the steps to the Capitol Building please. Thanks! :D

Absolutely. You could spend days visiting the Smithsonian; and not see it all.

[lynnf]

Absolutely. You could spend days visiting the Smithsonian; and not see it all.


precisely why, if you have any interest in aviation and/or space, you should start with the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum

http://www.nasm.si.edu/


lynn

[tangent4ronpaul]

visit your reps and tell um what you think of their voting record and urge them to vote however on upcoming bills.

-t

[Baptist]

precisely why, if you have any interest in aviation and/or space, you should start with the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum

http://www.nasm.si.edu/


lynn

Yeah, I spent most of my previous 1 day in D.C. in that museum. Who knows how many days it would take me to be satisfied that I'd seen all that museum. Of course, I'm weird in that I like to read every single thing there is to read, and examine everything there is to examine.

[amy31416]

precisely why, if you have any interest in aviation and/or space, you should start with the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum

http://www.nasm.si.edu/


lynn

I'll second that. That's my favorite museum...and when you go in, check out the clear plastic donations box--there's always all kinds of foreign currency in there. I'm not sure why that interested me just as much as space suits and lunar landers, but it did.

[Mesogen]

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[ronpaulhawaii]

The Jefferson Building housing the Library of Congress is not to be missed.

http://www.loc.gov/jefftour/

There is a little known grotto on the northwest side of the Capitol, close to the Taft Memorial that is a great place to rest.

http://www.aoc.gov/cc/grounds/art_arch/sh_4.cfm

The museums... and visiting some congresscritters to give them a piece of your mind

:D

[fisharmor]

National Cathedral.
See what's happening at the Kennedy Center.
See what's happening at the 930 club.
Go see the Exorcist steps on M street in Georgetown. Go to the Philly Cheesesteak factory while there - it's the only place I've found outside of PA to get a real one.
National Zoo (free, and on the red line metro).
Tony Chan's Mongolian Barbecue in Chinatown. (Also red line.)
Maybe just rent a car and try to go anywhere in it: you'll get sucked into the interdimensional vortex of sucky traffic design and be in cracktown in no time, and you'll get a first hand look at what urban decay looks like.

If you don't live near water and can get 1-2 hours out of town, there are head boats operating all over here where you can get some fishing action in.

Go bar hopping on Old Town Alexandria, or just walk Duke Street. Have dinner at Gadsby's Tavern.
Great Falls, VA.
Dip a bit further down into VA for Mount Vernon, Gunston Hall.
NRA museum in Fairfax.
In case you live in one of the People's Republics, you can actually go shooting in Virginia too.
Several... well, more like most of the civil war battlefields within 1-2 hour driving distance.

I don't know much about Maryland. Maryland is full of tools.

[SovereignMN]

You could go to Arlington National Cemetery and see Robert E Lee's property that was stolen by the Union.

[legion]

Ok, so you're at the national mall, right? Find the bunch of signs that say "Smithsonian" with a big blue M on it. Go down the flight of stairs there. When you get to the bottom they will have these vending machines that sell "Smart Rip Cards." Buy one and put money on it.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/index.php
Now swipe your metrocard and follow the blue signs that say "Largo Town Center" and ride the blue/orange line train for ONE STOP. Then make your way to the yellow line that says "Huntington." Get on the yellow train and ride until it says "King St." Make sure you get on at the front of the train, and you'll get some great views going over the Potomac. You'll now be in Virginia. Phew. That was a close one.

Get off the subway and start walking towards the river. After about a mile you'll be getting close to the water. Go all the way to the water, and find the water taxi stand. Buy one way tickets to "Georgetown." Since you probably spent half the day figuring out how to get to the national mall (w/o using public transportation) it'll probably be lunch time, so buy your ticket for 2 hours later and then walk back towards the subway. There will be a lot of fancy places to eat here. Don't eat at night unless you carry gold bricks in your wallet.

If you finish eating early you can explore the pier/park around where the water taxi service is.

Board the water taxi to Georgetown, and enjoy the views of all the cool shit you aren't supposed to see like secret research naval bases and the other side of the Pentagon.

Get off at Georgetown. Georgetown is the only part worth seeing in DC, as evidenced by the location of the Swedish Embassy to your right. The Scandinavians have a habit of stealing the best places. Enjoy.

[Danke]

Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center (http://www.nasm.si.edu/UdvarHazy/)

[raiha]

Yes Arlington House was moving. You have Gen'l Lee's mess kit in the wee museum there and a few locks of his hair and a few strands from Traveller's mane. Also to see the graves that the Union shoved in his back yard lest he live there again, was fascinating....you could feel the spite reverberating through the ages. Terrible to use dead people to make a point!

It was very sobering for me to see how many dead soldiers are in that cemetery. The Vietnam wall is sobering too. I wondered how many of them had died genuinely for their country v. how many died needlessly in Empire building. It is a beautiful city...I loved it and could have spent weeks there but it was too expensive!