Bill Schrier attended the Open Cities conference in Washington DC in early October. It was a glorious fall time in Washington. I flew in late on a Monday night, flying over a number of United States cities, including Chicago – there is an image below of Chicago from the air at night – Lake Michigan is to the upper right. I arrived in DC and stayed in the Dupont Circle area, which is also “embassy row”. Went out running one day and ran by embassy after embassy including embassies of countries I never heard of and which had no vowels in their names, for example the Kyrgyz Embassy, pictured. Flew out of DC on another beautiful afternoon, taking a couple of the photos below. Lara Schrier spent six weeks in the summer of 2008 at Georgetown University at a medical student prep summer school. Click any photo to see a larger version.
Washington, DC from the Air |
Georgetown University – Lara’s Summer Medical Course |
Chicago, Illinois, from the air at night, on the way to DC |
The Embassy of the Kyrgyz Republic in DC |
Bill & Kathy at Billy Martin's - click to enlarge
Kathy and Bill celebrated our 35th wedding anniversary on August 25th with a visit to Washington, D.C. On the evening of the 25th, we had dinner (photo at right) at Billy Martin’s tavern in Georgetown, sitting in booth #3, where John F. Kennedy proposed to Jacqueline Bouvier on June 24, 1953. We stayed at the Lombardy Hotel, and visited the Newseum. Kathy and I are both newspaper fans, and of course Kathy is a journalism teacher, so the Newseum – the museum of news and journalism – was a treat. I did a little work there, being on a panel at the Federal Communications Commission, talking about what should be included in the National Broadband plan. Links to some photos and video are below, but more photographs are on Picasa here, and more video is on Bill Schrier’s YouTube channel here.
Eleanor Roosevelt, Kathy and Bill - click to enlarge
The Washington Monument and Capitol at Night
Video of the White House from the South Lawn - click to play
Video of a chunk of the Berlin Wall in the Newseum - click to play
Panographic photo from the top floor of the Newseum, click to enlarge
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