Washington DC, cont'd.

[davidlevine]

Apparently my phone has a limit of how much you can type in a text field. And I'm not going to give the hotel ten bucks for the privilege of posting to my LJ...

Anyway. The other Air and Space museum is bigger than the Tillamook blimp hangar and features the space shuttle Enterpise, a Concorde, an SR-71 Blackbird (which Kate thought looked like a bad guy's spaceship), and the Enola Gay. Also Willy Ley's Hugo (for Conquest of Space), a Babylon 5 Usenet fans' jumpgate symbol (<*>) pin, and a spider that flew on the Space Shuttle (in formaldehyde). We could't possibly see it all, and eventually hunger drove us to a nearby strip mall for surprisingly good Vietnamese.

Peggy Rae took us back to the hotel, from whence we immediately took off for the Renwick museum, a very small branch of the Smithsonian that has some surprisingly good modern American craft-art (by which I mean furniture-making, glass-blowing, and other "craft" activities raised to the level of fine art). Recommended. And then it was time for the fly-in to start -- see previous post.

Also recommended: Malaysia Kopitam, where we had dinner with cjsmith and discord35 on Saturday night. We really have had very good luck with food this trip (including a nearly-disasterous attempt at lunch with deege, which turned out all right in the end).

Enough of this tiny keyboard! Back to reality late tomorrow.

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[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

And I'm not going to give the hotel ten bucks for the privilege of posting to my LJ...

Yeah, what was WITH that? Places on the level of a Super 8 have free wireless these days.