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Travel : Washington DC Night Tour

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P6020023On our first day in Washington D.C our friends took us on a evening tour of the entire capital. For three hours we traveled by bus and visited some of the most popular tourists sites within the area. The five stops we made included the Jefferson Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, Vietnam Memorial, Korean Memorial, and the FDR Memorial. Our tour guide also made time to stop over at the Iwo Jima Memorial to take photos which was pretty cool.

Overall, the tour was worth the price we paid. The tour guide was extremely knowledgeable about the area, and made the trip very educational and memorable. The beauty of the capital when it is completely lit up is an experience in itself and can only be appreciated during the evening hours.

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Travel : The D.C. Metro Experience

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Living on Guam for more than half of my life, my experiences with any form of public transportation has been extremely limited. The bus service has never been reliable on island and we have no metro or train system, so I have always been either a passenger or driver of a automobile.

When the friends we stayed with recommended the Metro station, you can only imagine my apprehension to the idea. I think I watched too many movies in my time and everything negative you could think of ran through my head about public trains and late night rides on the metro systems.

The experience however wasn’t all too bad. Durning the five days in Washington DC we would drive to the Hunnington station in Alexandria and ride on the Yellow into the main parts of the capital. Looking at the traffic on the freeways, we actually shaved off quite a bit of time by travelling on the Metro rather than trying to drive straight into the city.

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