I Get Around

After visiting Arlington Cemetery last week I embarked on a forty year walk. Yes, I am now sixty-one, happy birthday to me. For some reason the Lincoln Memorial looked a lot closer in my head than it was in reality. I blame my horrible sense of direction and depth for this miscalculation (this is the same reason I am a horrible driver. Seriously, I am glad to have a New Jersey license plate, people set the expectations low this way).

 I crossed a bridge and river ohhh pretty. This may or may not be me crossing into DC from Virginia. I am not Sacajawea I do not know if this is true, but, my blog, my rules....this is now a state boundary.

Okay, so they monument looks EVEN further now. What am I doing? Reality starts to set in at this point.

I spent a lot of time behind this couple on the bridge, we've seen some crazy things together. We bonded. But also, not sure if they knew I was there. Anyway, random couple, thanks for the memories.

More Sightseeing

Facts about Arlington Cemetery:

•  Averages twenty-eight funerals everday
• More than 300,000 people are buried here
• Veterans from all the nations wars (from the American Revolution onwards) are buried here

 "When we assumed the soldier we did not lay aside the citizen." -George Washington

Arlington Cemetery is huge.  Like massively, properly, beyond impressively huge. Ever inch of which, it seems, has a headstone paying homage to a fallen soldier. The sheer number of fallen Americans is shocking; and to think, this does not even begin to cover all of the lost military men and women (let alone the injured).