Fort Washington Park

Frederick Douglas National Historic Site

Piscataway Park

Dry Tortugas National Park

Endured 6 foot swells to and from Key West on this Ferry

But I made it!

The moat

Exploring the fort

Biscayne National Park

Everglades National Park

"The Everglades is a test. If we pass it, we get to keep the planet." 

~ Joe Podgor 

Lincoln Memorial

Lunch Break at the Lincoln Memorial

Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. 

- Abraham Lincoln

The Gettysburg Address

..."and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

-Abraham Lincoln

The reflecting pond is back to reflecting!

Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial

Nestled in Arlington National Cemetery, just a short walk from the Eternal Flame (JFK's Grave) is the Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial.

Mary Anna Custis, the wife of General Robert E. Lee, inherited the Arlington Estate the home from her father. While the Lee family did live in the home for a few years, in May 1861, the Union army captured the home and incorporated it into their defense system, defending Washington, DC. Throughout most of the Civil War, Union soldiers occupied the home and provided assistance to thousands of slaves fleeing enslavement.

View of the JFK Eternal Flame from Arlington House

View of DC from Arlington House

General Lee's Bedroom

Biggest shock of the day: George Washington and Robert E. Lee were related - distantly, via marriage.






My favorite part of the house was the giant spruce tree in the back yard between the two slave quarters.