Reply To: Washington D.C. – worth visiting?

[DevonDiamond]

The Savage Squirrel wrote:

I’d agree that two days is likely not long enough. Probably the highest concentration of quality meseums on Earth. Washi/Linc monuments are cool. Capitol is great (no idea if you can get in ATM).
Arlington National Cemetery and Robert E Lee’s former home are both more than worth a visit.
The FBI Hoover Building was pretty good and the Pentagon was actually a really interesting tour back in the day. Admittedly that was a long time ago; I was there the day before 9/11 – you could just turn up in those days – after which they obviously stopped for quite some time. I know they restarted a few years after with prebooking conditions but no idea of the current state of play.

The traditional route out of Washington is North, but consider driving South instead – in some ways it’s a lot more interesting. The Civil War history of Virginia. Richmond, Monticello, Jamestown, Williamsburg, The Outer Banks, Kitty Hawk, Raleigh, Chapel Hill, Asheville, Mount Mitchell (cycle up if you’re mad enough) then back up the Blue Ridge Parkway and Shenandoah Valley; across through Sharpsburg and Gettysburg and hey presto you’ve got a good two week road trip that I just thought up while writing this and now want to do 😀

100% agree on heading south.

I lived there as a kid in the early 90s. Pentagon tour and White House tour were possible back then for non-US nationals – we did both and enjoyed them. Agree there is a lot of colonial and civil war history which may be of interest. I enjoyed touching the moon rock at the Air and Space museum too.

There’s a lot on the lists above that I didn’t do when I lived there so I now want to return.