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Washington DC revisiting in the end of year 2011
It has been 14 yrs since the first time I visited DC when I was an
International Relations’ student in Boston. I have lived and worked in DC
twice since, but have not been back in the past three years.
DC is always my most favorite city in US and I find this city getting more
attractive and charming. Streets are clearn, People are polite, friendly and
highly educated, cultural life is well orgnazied. And, I find out a lot of
buildings are popping up in Gallery place and downtown area this time.....
The following is a summary of my DC tourist activities in the past few days.
1) Rock Creek Park/National Zoo is an unique urban paradise.
I used to ride my bike every weekend inside the rock creek park, part of US
national park system, and had a great time. It is an unique urban paradise.
You will find peace, nature, fresh air. A great place for mediatation and
reflection .........
The one hr drive along Beach Dr. was a great and breath-taken experience...
http://www.nps.gov/rocr/index.htm
National Zoo is located in the middle of Rock Creek Park. I am glad I spent
the whole afternoon of new year’s eve day over there,saw all lovely animals
I missed so much, Panada, lion, tiger, Zebra, flamingo and included
spending some time sitting down in front of Gorrila trying to talk with her.
...
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/
2) Georgetown
a)Georgetown is unique in anyway.
Ten year ago, I heard the disucssion to extend metroline to this historica
area. But, not yet this time, I am not surprise if it has been caused by
strong oppostion by powerful Georgetown residents.
b)3401 Prospect, Delta Phi epsilon’s fraternity house was my first and
former DC residence. I felt obliged to revisiting it since I involved a lots
in this fratinity and made some very good friends while living with 15
young guys together.....talked with a french fellow over there and walked
through all 4 floors....A lot of sweet memory simply came back again when
the open was open again.....
This professional foreign service fraternity , associated with Georgetown’s
School of foreign service is still active and hold events regularly.
http://www.deltaphiepsilon.net/
BTW, Former State Secretary Madeleine Albright’s house is 2 houses next to
ours. She used to be a professor at Georgetown university and her house was
guarded 24hrs by secret service personnel when she was in the Clinton
administration.
c) Waterfront area is getting more charming. Seem there are more
residental buildings than before. The waterfront garden has extended along
patomac riverbank towards key bridge, the bridge I used to crossed every
morning for jogging at Reseveloot island in the middle of Patomac river.
There is a wooden-made jogging trail inside the island.
http://www.nps.gov/this/index.htm
3) Chevy Chase
I used to rent a room from a former US ambassador, whose house is located on
western Ave and had a chance to explore this presitigious neigberhood. Put
into a simple way, all of residents here are powerful and recognizable,
similiar as Georgetown.
The shopping area in friendship heights is getting more upscale, Gucci, Saks
Fifth, Neiman Marcus stores are all located in this area.....
4) Dupont Circle/Adam Morgan/U st.
a)Dupont cirlce is the culture icon in DC. The best and most popluar
bookstore/cafe is still popular. Every books they collected are worth
reading through and every book readers over there are worth chatting with
and building friendship with.
http://www.kramers.com/index.html
b)Walked through Massachusetts ave, stopped in front of Brookings
Institution, SAIS, where I used to work and have spent a lot of time
attending forums............and took a pause thinking and reflecting.....
c)Adam Morgan/U st are DC’s night club/bar areas. I found out these areas
are neat and much more safer than before, has no problem to walk around at
night. It seems to be DC’s safety has improved dramatically in recent years
.
5) White House/Lafayatte Sq/ODC movement.
a) St. Jonn’s church, the powerful Episcopal church which has a fame as
“Church of Presidents”, is located in the backyard of White House, the
Lafayatte sq is situated in the middle between them.
On 9am, 01/01/2012, New year day, joined St. John’s new year day Holy
Eucharist service.
A prayer for myself was asking Lord to re-organize my thoughts and life in
the year of 2012.
Observation:
A small,but well dressed, influential and devoted crowd.
The Rev.Dr.Luis Leon is a very articulate and thougtful pastor.
All of speakers for the Sunday’s adult forum are inspirational. For
instance, On 1/29/2012, the Hon.James Baker, who served for 3 US presidents
will lead the forum discussion.
If you plan to visit next time, pay attention to Pew 54, which is the
President’s Pew, and is located in the middle on the left side of chapel,
www.stjohns-dc.org
b) Lafayatte sq’s 30th year Lonely protester.
met and talked with Ms. Concepcion Piccotto again. She is remarkable figure,
has been demonstrating and holding the Anti-nuclear Peace Vigil in the
backyard of Whitel house since Aug, 1, 1980 for the past 30 yrs. She is
still energetic, talk active and friendly to every curious passbys.
Well, I demonstrated my anger once at Lafayatte’s sq aganist Bill Clinton’
s hawish-style foreign policy...the particular wrongful act of Bombing China
embassy’s in Belgrade in 2001....by playing my favorite Russion songs in
my laptop while sitting on the bench at Sq one night.....I, have no way to
reach the level of Ms. Piccotto’s endurance and determination.
http://prop1.org/conchita/
http://prop1.org/conchita/vigil/000615.washtime.knott.htm
c). Inspected Ocuppied DC camp ground at McPherson Square. Good, at least DC
Police has not evicted them yet. And, one protester/poet asked me if I can
help him to get his occupying-poem published and translated in Chinese
language..
http://www.wjla.com/tag/occupy-dc/
6) Smithonisan Museums/National mall area.
I love all of Smithonisan museums located in the national mall area. It took
me straight 7 days to take the guided tour visiting all museums back in
1997. This time, it only took me one whole afternoon to cover all.
American Indian museum is new one. The architure is stunningly beautiful.
http://www.nmai.si.edu/
East wing of National Gallery of art is under renovation and will be open in
2014.
http://www.nga.gov/
American history museum seems to have a new outlook.
US Botanic garden is great as always.
Luckily that I caught up the guided tour at Air and space museum and liked
that glass-wearing, knowledgable tour guide a lots and good to hear the
story about 1969 Apollo man’s moon landing program again.
Renwick Gallery is a biggest surprise this time. It is the most beautiful
bountique gallery I have been recently outside Europe......
Gee, it took me two hrs to write down these words. I hope this recap of my
tourist activities is useful when you plan your next DC visit.
It has been 14 yrs since the first time I visited DC when I was an
International Relations’ student in Boston. I have lived and worked in DC
twice since, but have not been back in the past three years.
DC is always my most favorite city in US and I find this city getting more
attractive and charming. Streets are clearn, People are polite, friendly and
highly educated, cultural life is well orgnazied. And, I find out a lot of
buildings are popping up in Gallery place and downtown area this time.....
The following is a summary of my DC tourist activities in the past few days.
1) Rock Creek Park/National Zoo is an unique urban paradise.
I used to ride my bike every weekend inside the rock creek park, part of US
national park system, and had a great time. It is an unique urban paradise.
You will find peace, nature, fresh air. A great place for mediatation and
reflection .........
The one hr drive along Beach Dr. was a great and breath-taken experience...
http://www.nps.gov/rocr/index.htm
National Zoo is located in the middle of Rock Creek Park. I am glad I spent
the whole afternoon of new year’s eve day over there,saw all lovely animals
I missed so much, Panada, lion, tiger, Zebra, flamingo and included
spending some time sitting down in front of Gorrila trying to talk with her.
...
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/
2) Georgetown
a)Georgetown is unique in anyway.
Ten year ago, I heard the disucssion to extend metroline to this historica
area. But, not yet this time, I am not surprise if it has been caused by
strong oppostion by powerful Georgetown residents.
b)3401 Prospect, Delta Phi epsilon’s fraternity house was my first and
former DC residence. I felt obliged to revisiting it since I involved a lots
in this fratinity and made some very good friends while living with 15
young guys together.....talked with a french fellow over there and walked
through all 4 floors....A lot of sweet memory simply came back again when
the open was open again.....
This professional foreign service fraternity , associated with Georgetown’s
School of foreign service is still active and hold events regularly.
http://www.deltaphiepsilon.net/
BTW, Former State Secretary Madeleine Albright’s house is 2 houses next to
ours. She used to be a professor at Georgetown university and her house was
guarded 24hrs by secret service personnel when she was in the Clinton
administration.
c) Waterfront area is getting more charming. Seem there are more
residental buildings than before. The waterfront garden has extended along
patomac riverbank towards key bridge, the bridge I used to crossed every
morning for jogging at Reseveloot island in the middle of Patomac river.
There is a wooden-made jogging trail inside the island.
http://www.nps.gov/this/index.htm
3) Chevy Chase
I used to rent a room from a former US ambassador, whose house is located on
western Ave and had a chance to explore this presitigious neigberhood. Put
into a simple way, all of residents here are powerful and recognizable,
similiar as Georgetown.
The shopping area in friendship heights is getting more upscale, Gucci, Saks
Fifth, Neiman Marcus stores are all located in this area.....
4) Dupont Circle/Adam Morgan/U st.
a)Dupont cirlce is the culture icon in DC. The best and most popluar
bookstore/cafe is still popular. Every books they collected are worth
reading through and every book readers over there are worth chatting with
and building friendship with.
http://www.kramers.com/index.html
b)Walked through Massachusetts ave, stopped in front of Brookings
Institution, SAIS, where I used to work and have spent a lot of time
attending forums............and took a pause thinking and reflecting.....
c)Adam Morgan/U st are DC’s night club/bar areas. I found out these areas
are neat and much more safer than before, has no problem to walk around at
night. It seems to be DC’s safety has improved dramatically in recent years
.
5) White House/Lafayatte Sq/ODC movement.
a) St. Jonn’s church, the powerful Episcopal church which has a fame as
“Church of Presidents”, is located in the backyard of White House, the
Lafayatte sq is situated in the middle between them.
On 9am, 01/01/2012, New year day, joined St. John’s new year day Holy
Eucharist service.
A prayer for myself was asking Lord to re-organize my thoughts and life in
the year of 2012.
Observation:
A small,but well dressed, influential and devoted crowd.
The Rev.Dr.Luis Leon is a very articulate and thougtful pastor.
All of speakers for the Sunday’s adult forum are inspirational. For
instance, On 1/29/2012, the Hon.James Baker, who served for 3 US presidents
will lead the forum discussion.
If you plan to visit next time, pay attention to Pew 54, which is the
President’s Pew, and is located in the middle on the left side of chapel,
www.stjohns-dc.org
b) Lafayatte sq’s 30th year Lonely protester.
met and talked with Ms. Concepcion Piccotto again. She is remarkable figure,
has been demonstrating and holding the Anti-nuclear Peace Vigil in the
backyard of Whitel house since Aug, 1, 1980 for the past 30 yrs. She is
still energetic, talk active and friendly to every curious passbys.
Well, I demonstrated my anger once at Lafayatte’s sq aganist Bill Clinton’
s hawish-style foreign policy...the particular wrongful act of Bombing China
embassy’s in Belgrade in 2001....by playing my favorite Russion songs in
my laptop while sitting on the bench at Sq one night.....I, have no way to
reach the level of Ms. Piccotto’s endurance and determination.
http://prop1.org/conchita/
http://prop1.org/conchita/vigil/000615.washtime.knott.htm
c). Inspected Ocuppied DC camp ground at McPherson Square. Good, at least DC
Police has not evicted them yet. And, one protester/poet asked me if I can
help him to get his occupying-poem published and translated in Chinese
language..
http://www.wjla.com/tag/occupy-dc/
6) Smithonisan Museums/National mall area.
I love all of Smithonisan museums located in the national mall area. It took
me straight 7 days to take the guided tour visiting all museums back in
1997. This time, it only took me one whole afternoon to cover all.
American Indian museum is new one. The architure is stunningly beautiful.
http://www.nmai.si.edu/
East wing of National Gallery of art is under renovation and will be open in
2014.
http://www.nga.gov/
American history museum seems to have a new outlook.
US Botanic garden is great as always.
Luckily that I caught up the guided tour at Air and space museum and liked
that glass-wearing, knowledgable tour guide a lots and good to hear the
story about 1969 Apollo man’s moon landing program again.
Renwick Gallery is a biggest surprise this time. It is the most beautiful
bountique gallery I have been recently outside Europe......
Gee, it took me two hrs to write down these words. I hope this recap of my
tourist activities is useful when you plan your next DC visit.