{"id":324,"date":"2016-07-31T10:58:57","date_gmt":"2016-07-31T15:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myredsuitcase.com\/blog\/?p=324"},"modified":"2016-07-31T10:59:21","modified_gmt":"2016-07-31T15:59:21","slug":"three-week-american-days-1415-off-to-washington-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myredsuitcase.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/31\/three-week-american-days-1415-off-to-washington-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"Three-week American: Days 14\/15 \u2013 Off to Washington, DC"},"content":{"rendered":"

After spending two weeks in North America, half of it in the US, it was now time to visit the capital of the country \u2013 Washington D.C. The roughly two-hour long flight left from the (considering the physical size) largest airport in the World, Chicago O\u2019Hare, and went to the national \u201cReagan\u201d airport of Washington.<\/p>\n

The next morning, or to be more precise around noon, we left our hotel in the Fogg Bottom district of Washington and after a breakfast as \u201cwholefoods\u201d around the corner I set off for an eventful day.<\/p>\n

In the night before we had a thunderstorm which had been considered \u201csevere\u201d by the NWS \u2013 and it had left some traces. The storm damage near the Washington monument was recorded by SPC and it was confirmed as a straight-line wind event.\"IMG_1435_edited\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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My first stop for the day was the Lincoln memorial \u2013 on the way there we also passed by the \u201cInstitute of Peace\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Next stop was the Vietnam memorial. It is very depressing to see how many people died because of a pointless war between two ideologies.<\/p>\n

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After that, I went on to the Washington memorial but didn\u2019t go inside because I didn\u2019t feel like waiting in the open sun with temperatures of 37\u00b0C for an hour.<\/p>\n

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And finally, to sum up the day, we went to both the Natural History museum and the Smithsonian Air and Space museum. Both, but especially the latter, very nice and well-made museums \u2013 and both are free.<\/p>\n

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