One little Heidi, one big world
Alas, my final post of my final day of my crazy trip trying to get all of the National Park Service units visited in the DC region! September 16, 2023 DC is an absolute ghost town at 8:15am on a Saturday. It is a bit bizarre to be in a place where hotels are cheaper… Continue reading DC Round Two – Part 3: Ford’s Theatre, National Mall, Rock Creek Park, and Clara Barton National Historic Site
Continuing on my whirlwind trip to finish out all the DC National Park Service (NPS) units... September 15, 2023 My work conference wrapped up with a half-day session, which meant for the next 24 hours I would be on personal time before my flight home! I had chosen to swap hotels, trading in some Hilton… Continue reading DC Round Two – Part 2: Mary McLeod Bethune Council House NHS, Belmont Paul Women’s Equality NM, and Chesapeake & Ohio Canal NHP
Work would take me to Washington, DC once again, so I knew I had to make the best of it, and finish out the remaining National Park Service (NPS) units I had not visited during my previous trip in 2022. Unlike in 2022, a lot of sites that were closed for renovation were reopened and… Continue reading DC Round Two – Part 1: Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, Theodore Roosevelt Island, and LBJ Memorial Grove
September 14, 2022 I actually grumbled when my alarm went off, and I made plenty of grumpy noises as I prepared for the day. After a long day of travel the previous day topped off with miles of walking and staying up later than I wanted, I was... grumpy. But time to turn the frown… Continue reading Seein’ the DC – Part 2: Arlington National Cemetery, US Capitol, National Mall, & Department of Interior Museum
Washington, DC offers up almost a dizzying array of National Park Service (NPS) units that are quick to check off, so needless to say, when an opportunity to travel to DC for work came up, I knew I'd want to take a personal day to see as many as I could! With plans set in… Continue reading Seein’ the DC – Part 1: Lincoln, FDR, & MLK Memorials, Korean War Memorial, and Lincoln Memorial
The Adventuring Heidi 