Bethesda

Welcome to the wonderful world of Bethesda, Maryland. Say it. Be-thezzz-duh. It's fun.

Having exhausted all the District's sights and treasures I hopped on the metro to travel far across state lines. (Ehh it took like twenty minutes). I'm glad I'm not a pilgrim...I just don't think I could take the ages long boat ride where you have to eat sawdust, I'll stick to my twenty minute train thank you very much.

Bethesda has it all, just check out this gentle sir crossing the street.

It even has hidden pathways through secret gardens! Gee golly!

Shady places for garbage.

My Main Squeeze Lincoln and a Photo Dump

So here's the thing, I've ran out of stuff to do. I've seen all the sights, been there done that, and now I spend most of my days moseying. When all else fails and I don't know what to do I take the metro to Metro Center, mostly because it has the word center in it's name. METRO CENTER, it just sounds awesome, like there are things happening on every corner, the land of milk and honey!! This is mostly false, but it does have a Forever 21 and a H&M.

 Here is the Brewmaster's Castle down the street from my apartment.

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).