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Tour of Mount Vernon<\/strong><\/p>\n The Apitzes and Goodes-of-Madison arrived at the tour of Mount Vernon, George Washington’s home, via cruise boat along the Potomac. \u00a0The day was cool and gray, with a major thunderstorm center known to be heading our way. \u00a0The boat ride was pleasant altho there were not a lot of sights to see along the way.<\/p>\n Our self guided tour began at the river, a calm and appropriate beginning, much more laid back than the crush of humanity in the parking lots, which feed folks in through a visitor center (complete with the requisite trinkets and fast food) which housed a George Washington museum.<\/p>\n We strolled past various restored or recreated out-buildings, climbed a steep hill via a walkway through the woods, and came to the main living area. \u00a0This complex consisted of GW’s home, a virtual small town of specialized huts for various craftsmen, slave quarters, a greenhouse, and more.<\/p>\n Tour of the Capitol.\u00a0 Click here.<\/a><\/p>\n Union Station.\u00a0 Click here.<\/a><\/p>\n Botanical garden.\u00a0 Click here.<\/a><\/p>\n Air and Space Museum.\u00a0 Click here.<\/a><\/p>\n War Memorials. Click here.<\/a><\/p>\n Kennedy Center.\u00a0 Click here.<\/a><\/p>\n Arlington.\u00a0 Click here.<\/a><\/p>\n Natural History Museum. Click here<\/a><\/p>\n Morocco Restaurant. Click here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n Last Day – Naval Memorial – Click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Goode family descended on our nation’s capitol to attend the retirement ceremony of Nathan Jones from the Naval Reserve after 38 years service. Much sightseeing was done by all. \u00a0If you’re like me, you might have a hard time remembering exactly where you’d been and what you were looking at. \u00a0This mapping aid could … Continue reading “Goode Family Reunion and Naval Retirement in Washington DC”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-vacation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1633"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2723,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions\/2723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"MtVernon-042\"](\"http:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MtVernon-042-300x165.jpg\")
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