When one travels to Washington, DC, one ends up doing a lot of walking. Wow. We arrived Saturday July 17, and walked (and walked, and walked, after taking the Metro) to the Jefferson Memorial, then walked and walked and walked back to the Metro. Sunday we went to Mount Vernon, and found that very interesting. Monday we saw the US Capitol, Library of Congress (saw Jefferson's personal library; very impressive; makes mine look amateurish), Museum of American History, walked past the White House, and briefly saw the WWII memorial. Tuesday was National Archives - seeing original signatures is very imposing, and I listened to a part of a conversation between the governor of Mississippi, Robert Kennedy, and President Kennedy. Pretty cool.), National Portrait Gallery (with some very famous portraits of the Presidents), and Arlington National Cemetery, where we saw the Tomb of the Unknowns, as well as the gravesites of the Kennedy's. Even with a wonderful public transit system like Metro, you do a lot of walking.

Today (Wednesday) we left DC by train, and went to Baltimore, where we got to the hotel, checked in at 11 a.m.(!) and left at 11:10 to walk to Camden Yards to watch the Rays play the Orioles. In DC we saw a young family from Brandon who were doing what we were doing, except they were headed back to DC after the game. When we got to the light rail system to take us to the hotel/ballpark, they were on the train with us again. We also spoke to a couple of folks from Philly who were there for the game. In addition, we waved to Todd Kalas, and he said hello to these two gray-hairs from Tampa who were wearing their Rays' T-shirts.

Tomorrow we head to Philly - again by train, and we'll be there for 5 nights. We'll visit with my parents, some high school friends, and see a lot of history. I'm not reading as much right now, but I'm seeing places these people lived, even helped to build. So it's fun. I'm not sure how many miles we've walked in the last 5 days, but it is more than we would have walked if we were home doing our exercising.

Hope you're well.