DC Trip

It has been a few weeks now but my girlfriend, Liz, and I went to DC on 7/20. She was there earlier the week for a conference and I flew out to visit the city and some of her friends. We had a really great time. It is a nice city to visit from time to time. Get to visit the smithsonians and museums again to see what has changed or what we don't remember. I did learn, to my supprise that Liz is not much of a museum person; or more to the point she is less of a museum person than me. I had always felt guilty going to museums and only looking at a few of the really intersting things. I always thought I should be reading the signs and descritptions more or looking at more. Guess we are all different on how much of that we can take in at at time.

The best thing we were able to do was a segway tour around downtown DC. It was about about 4 hours long with a 45 min stop at at the WWII memorial area. The segways are so easy to ride and a lot of fun. It only take a few minutes to learn how to ride it and about 15 to 20 minutes of riding around to get really comfortable with turns, bumps, and traffic. By the end of the tour it was so second nature to ride that I basically thought of where to go and I went without going through the thought process of telling my body which way to move or bend to move the segway. Here are some pictures.