FIRST POST!!!!!!        Walking... endless walking that is the main thing you do in a city, walk. It seems that the biggest highlight of this trip is walking. The only time you are not walking is when you are on the train or in a building. The train dosen't give you much chance to rest though because it only takes three minutes to get from one side of D.C. to the other on the metro (another name for the train), then there's the weather. In the city it is either clear or fog. It is nice when the fog clears, you get a wonderfull view of the smog, and when the smog clears you see the city and then you wish for more fog.  The city is actually much better than I have portrayed it. It is mostly clear, there isn't any smog (that I have seen) and it has only rained once so far and it wasn't that bad when it did. The metros are fast so you don't have to wait a long time to get to where you are going on them. The walking isn't that bad and there is a lot of stuff to look at while you're passing by so you're usually not that bored while you are walking. We only have used cars for long distances or when we need more stuff than we can hold for a long trip on foot. We have seen the Airforce Memorial, the Navy Memorial, as well as the Washinton Monument, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Pentagon from a distance. We have also seen the national Christmas tree and part of the Smithsonian museum.

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