Hi!

This is what happened on the first day in DC.

Travel log bullet points:

* Got out the door at around 9 am, walked Massachusets Ave northwest. Turned south after a few locks and turned up unexpectedly at......The White House. Sat on a park bench and reflected for a while. It sure is very white!  :-)

* Walked south to the Washington Monument, then west to the World War II and Lincoln memorials. Big empty spaces with not too many people around in the chilly weather.

* Walked north to reach more normal city streets. 9000 steps on my Samsung Health app at 10.45, so I refreshed myself with hot black tea and two donuts at a Dunkin' Donuts in a George Washington University food court.

* Missed a potentially great shot in the Stripes category. Of course matching street crossing stripes with a strpey sweater is a very basic cliché, but this time there would have been a colour match as well. The stripes, both on the sweater and the ground was pink and white. Not black and white. I stalked the woman for a while, hoping for another pink/white crossing, but they were all the usual black/white. 

* Left the poor woman and turned west and walked to Georgetown. This is a more small scale part of the city with some houses dating back to the 18th century. Walked the major roads up and down and went down to the Potomac river to look at the view.

* Got a great burger for lunch and took a bus back to the hostel.

* Backed up photos and wrote and sent the Philadelphia blog and got a nap before heading out in the evening. 

* Walked to Chinatown and got the subway to Columbia Heights to see something different. Felt like a normal town there. Got the subway back. There were a lot of people about, who turned out to be lining up to see Fleetwood Mac.

* Finished editing Washington photos in the evening and got to bed at 11pm.

Today I broke the record in the Samsung Health app, 27000 steps! 1500 more than the most I did in Bangkok.

Hugs,

Niklas