Nov. 3 rides

[divingbiker]

The TE-DC contingent (MDHillSlug, Kalidurga, Regina, and I) got together for our second DC Monument Tour this morning, on the occasion of Livin the Dream's visit to our nation's capitol from her home in Ohio. We met at the bike rental place near the Old Post Office Pavilion on a cold and windy morning.

We took a nice ride down Pennsylvania Avenue and stopped at the Victims of Communism memorial, then Union Station. We continued on (past many road barriers) to the Supreme Court, Capitol, Library of Congress, then down the mall past all the museums and the Washington Monument.

There were throngs of people on the mall for a charity walk, so we took some less-traveled paths past the World War II memorial to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Korean War Memorial.

Then we crossed the Potomac via the Memorial Bridge to Arlington National Cemetery to see the Iwo Jima Memorial and the Netherlands Carillon. We rode back over the bridge down to Hains Point to the Awakening statue, then back up to the Jefferson Memorial and across the Mall to the White House.

We finished up the ride with a delicious lunch at a Peruvian/Salvadoran restaurant. The tour was about 19 miles; 35 miles total including the ride into town and back home.

It was great to meet Livin the Dream, and we invite all of you to visit DC so we can do another tour!

No people pics this time, just scenery...

Iwo Jima memorial (I really like this memorial)

the view toward DC from the Netherlands Carillon

a timely quotation from the FDR memorial

the Awakening statue