We love you Mr Roosevelt, we think you're fine
I'm now at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA. I also have the worst cold I have had in quite some time, it's been getting progressively wrose in the last couple of days to the point where I have no stamina and have to have a constant tissue supply. I also have one hell of a headache now. No wonder I was exhausted after walking around Washington all day Saturday.
Friday I did finally go to Arlington and the Pentagon along with Teddy Roosevelt Island. Arlington Cemetary is quite large with probably hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of headstones. Presidents Taft and of course JFK are also buried there. Some of it's monuments are also stunning, as with much of Washington. I also got to see a funeral processession leaving the cemetary - including fire engines. You can get through the whole thing in probably a few hours. I must also be crazy because I crossed several lanes of major traffic in a couple of shortcuts I made on the way there from Teddy Island and to the Pentagon, along with climbing numerous walls.
Pentagon is actually rather unintersting. You need a lot of elevation to see the shape and grandeur of the thing, from the side it just looks like a massive office building of no particular interest - which, I suppose, is exactly what it is. They don't allow photographs either. Not really worth bothering with other than to say you've seen it.
Friday Cyn had a party in the suite, which is two dorm rooms, one with her and Sarah and the other with Kitty and Loralee, connected by a bathroom. Watched Battlestar there at 1am after all but half a dozen if us were gone, there was at least 20 originally. Saturday I hit as much of the remainder of DC as I could in one day, took over 100 photos which will be avaliable later. Went to dinner and then a couple of other parties, then messed around talking to people until 6am. Today was just the ritual 1pm brunch at TDR, then watching half the Pittsburgh vs Denver game before it was time to leave and catch my bus to Harrisburg. Lipe and I only just made it in time as it took as a bit longer than expected to get organised.
Got to Harrisburg fine a met up with Kyle, then we drived through the rain to Lewisburg, watched some random TV with his girlfriend and her friends, then the last half of The Italian Job and now I'm wasting time online. I'm five floors up without a lift, this is going to be fun...
Friday I did finally go to Arlington and the Pentagon along with Teddy Roosevelt Island. Arlington Cemetary is quite large with probably hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of headstones. Presidents Taft and of course JFK are also buried there. Some of it's monuments are also stunning, as with much of Washington. I also got to see a funeral processession leaving the cemetary - including fire engines. You can get through the whole thing in probably a few hours. I must also be crazy because I crossed several lanes of major traffic in a couple of shortcuts I made on the way there from Teddy Island and to the Pentagon, along with climbing numerous walls.
Pentagon is actually rather unintersting. You need a lot of elevation to see the shape and grandeur of the thing, from the side it just looks like a massive office building of no particular interest - which, I suppose, is exactly what it is. They don't allow photographs either. Not really worth bothering with other than to say you've seen it.
Friday Cyn had a party in the suite, which is two dorm rooms, one with her and Sarah and the other with Kitty and Loralee, connected by a bathroom. Watched Battlestar there at 1am after all but half a dozen if us were gone, there was at least 20 originally. Saturday I hit as much of the remainder of DC as I could in one day, took over 100 photos which will be avaliable later. Went to dinner and then a couple of other parties, then messed around talking to people until 6am. Today was just the ritual 1pm brunch at TDR, then watching half the Pittsburgh vs Denver game before it was time to leave and catch my bus to Harrisburg. Lipe and I only just made it in time as it took as a bit longer than expected to get organised.
Got to Harrisburg fine a met up with Kyle, then we drived through the rain to Lewisburg, watched some random TV with his girlfriend and her friends, then the last half of The Italian Job and now I'm wasting time online. I'm five floors up without a lift, this is going to be fun...
posted by Nic White at
6:00 PM
