We drove to the Metro at the Vienna Fairfax station and took the Metro right into the middle of Washington (the capital that was started in 1790) getting off at the Smithsonian stop. The Smithsonian visitor’s center is most helpful in enabling one to plan ones visit to the various museums. We first went to the Air and Space Museum. Each of these museums has sections within them where you can spend a lot of time. At the Air and Space Museum I enjoyed the section of Navigation - sea, air and satellite as well as the Wright museum that describes how Orville and Wilbur Wright, who designed the Kitty Hawk based on their experience building bicycles. We had passed by Kitty Hawk on our way up the coast. “In 1903 on a remote sandy beach Orville broke our human bond with earth and flew for 12 seconds. For the first time a manned, heavier-than-air machine left the ground by its own power, moved forward under control without loosing speed, and landed on a point as high as that from which it started.”
We had lunch at the Air and Space museum and then rode around on the free circulator bus past the United States Capitol building and then spent the afternoon at the American History Museum. In the evening we went to the Kennedy Center.
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| The Smithsonian Visitor Center |
A V1 German Rocket also known as a Doodlebug
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