Fly to Washington DC

 We start the trip off by flying to Washington DC.  Jen is looking after the house.  And the cat and the dog.  Kat took us to the airport.

As soon as we arrived we hit our first snag,  Once we had packed, and we knew that we had 3 bags to check, I went online and paid United for the 3 bags.  But when we got to the airport, they wanted me to pay for the bags again.  Eventually we got an agent, and after poking around in their computer, she said that I had paid for the 3 bags for the return flight, and I still had to pay to get them to DC in the first place.

Then security took a long time trying to decide if our carry-on backpacks were dangerous or not. But eventually they let us in.  We wandered around, got some early lunch, and waited for the flight.  The wait and the flight were uneventful, and we landed at Dulles airport.  Dulles is very large and we landed at C or D and it took a trek and a “bus” ride to get to baggage claim.  The “bus” looked like a subway car on stilts, on top of tires.

While we were waiting for our luggage, the driver that the hotel had sent texted me and by the time we had our bags, he was there, and it was off to driving downtown to the hotel.  We are staying at the Hay-Adams hotel, 3rd floor, just North of the White House. We checked in.  WiFi and USB chargers!

By then it was getting late.  We found a restaurant to eat at not too far away — the Elephant and Castle Pub, and walked there.  Fish and chips!

Then a walk back, in the dark by now.  The Elephant and Castle is on Pennsylvania Avenue, so we could walk straight down that to the White House, and then across Lafayette Park to our hotel.




A new property of travel for us.  Between the two of us, we have 2 iPads, 2 Phones, an Apple watch, and my hearing aids.  Oh, and two Bose headphones and Linda’s camera (although those don’t need to be recharged every day, so far).  So we need a boat load of USB-A charging outlets if we want to charge things overnight.  Kat loaned us a 6-port USB-A charger which helps a lot, but we may need to get another eventually.



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