7/29/2017 Annapolis, Maryland

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Tim and Linda Bunyan

Annapolis, Maryland @ Elk Lodge

We arrived and are very welcome at the Severna Park Elks Lodge.  We plan to stay on grounds here for 3 nights (while touring Annapolis) and attend their Monday night steak night. 

We are invited and parked in the large, backlot to allow for their Annual Crab Feast.  We met Amy and President of the Severna Park Elks Lodge.  Amy has a worthy mission:  She runs ½ marathons in each state!

There is a grassland area here and it is quiet for Woodstock so he liked his twilight-time walks.

We are in town on the same date as: Mac McAnally!!!  
Tim reserved tickets at the Rams Head Theatre.  It was exciting and a good show to see the very night we arrived downtown Annapolis!  

Annapolis:  Historic district 18th-century brick houses and the dome of the Maryland State House.

Walked the sprawling waterfront lined with yachts and many happy people. 

We toured the US Naval Academy with its beaux-arts architecture, monuments and a naval history museum.  There is a crypt of John Paul Jones, US 1^st Navel hero. 

In a sarcophagus of Pyrenees marble beneath the main chapel.  Noted for saying: “I have not yet begun to Fight”.  

We were there in time for the noon formation of pleues.  In the ceremony, they align and are all accounted.  They march in formation into Bancroft Hall, the largest cafeteria in the world.  It seats 5000, enlarged a few years ago. 

17,000 applicants to attend Annapolis; 1200 per year are accepted.  A legislator can only sponsor 10 at any one time.  At the conclusion of graduation ceremonies, midshipmen toss their caps into the air.  Hats are replaced by the new ‘covers’ worn by Officers in the Navy & Marine Corps.

We toured the small, eloquent Capitol with its paintings of founding fathers.

We had a pleasant visit to our ‘other address’: 

The post office was around the corner where we met Victor who worked at the post office.  We mailed Alicia’s birthday present.  Victor held the door open said hello and goodbye.  With his broom in hand, he swept the front step.  He is a reminder of Mac McAnally’s song “It’s my Job”.  A moment!  "You Just Have To Be There" 😊

7/28/2017 Hershey, Pennsylvania

                                                              

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Tim and Linda Bunyan

We were first to arrive at Hershey World at the RV parking lot.  It was not yet open so it appeared as “Wally World”.  We went on the Trolley Tour through the town of Hershey.  The community is created as a model town for the workers at Milton Hershey’s chocolate factory.  Hershey Park opened in 1907 as a greenspace park.  It now includes a Stadium and Giant Center to host concerts.  The community street lights are designed in the shape of Hershey's kisses.

7/23 – 7/29 Washington DC @ Cherry Hill RV

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Tim and Linda Bunyan

7/23 – 7/29/2017       Washington D.C. @ Cherry Hill RV 

Cherry Hill is a marvelous RV Park and came recommended by Peter and Pam Tellier and all our other RV point-people.

Full amenities, most important: a shuttle is offered to the Metro into WA. DC central.

We walked each day until we could not walk anymore.

If one treads no place but Washington, D.C. this is a 'must' place to carve out.
Our wonderful nation is wrapped up in these streets of D.C. and we thrive to see it all.
Every day for an entire week we are back at RV just before midnight and then up early to ride the Metro to downtown as the museums close at 5:00p.m. 
 











This Fireman's Fund Building marks our 
Metro Subway entrance from downtown D.C.

MODES of Transportation in WA D.C.

Our CasaRoll affords us a ride thru this country with proper accommodations to gain access to choice.  It is amazing.  So interesting being self-sufficient and with the man I love so much.
His adventurist mind and detailed actions are keen.  The kitty and he nap on the bed as we have taken many horizontal rests in this odyssey.

I want to call Christine too, as each night it is well past bedtime when I sit after the long day with no remaining time to call.

Woodstock doing fairly well.  Noises are not for him.  He has a mode of action when we arrive, he goes to the door to go out and scope the perimeter.  Departure he meows for a time then goes into kitty trance and rolls to his side to sleep.



TOURING THE CAPITOL BUILDING
Our son, Jason, arranged for us a private tour of the Capitol via means of Congressman David Daladao CA-21.  The office staff greeted us with a welcome sign.  Jack, the intern, led us around for two hours for an inside ‘glimpse’.  Statues, windows with arches, carvings, painting all with purpose and story.   Many American Heroes!

 Working, sitting position, at North Wing of the U.S. Capitol: serves as the legislative chamber of the Senate since 1859. 

 100 individual desks.  

 35 statues are located in National Statuary Hall and in the Hall of Columns.

Appropriations Committee: where laws are known to:
 "make or break"!

The beautiful skylight in the rooftop of the Capitol Building.





























As Tim and I walked around outside, near the Legislative Offices in the well-known  Rayburn Building, up walked Congressman Garamendi, Representative (D) CA 3^rd.   We spoke about his working late hours and walking home.  

He lives a few blocks from the Capitol Building and remains working into the twilight hours for ‘the issues’…. and awaiting Donald Trump tweets!  





























We found a quiet sanctuary just outside the Capitol
lawn.  

The Smithsonian's are compelling.

 THE LOBBY BOARDGAME !!!
(in case of Emergency: break glass)

Worthy items found in the museums!

Campaign Swag
This red, plaid lunchbox is just like my own school lunch box from 3rd grade!  The thermos is probably not there as I broke mine too.

Automobile Manufacturers......in the Smithsonian.
We took a twilight tour bus the first night upon arrival.  We viewed the white house surround by fences.

WWII Memorial is especially beautiful lit up at night!  The monuments and the lay of the land are incredible. 

Tim at WWII monument, up close, each pillar represents a state. 



WA Monument in the background of the WWII Memorial.

 

President Roosevelt Park is intriguing and has a walkway thru a park that depicts the decade he served.  

Martin Luther King stands huge carved from a block of granite strong and mighty and very impressive.