Day 25: November 28, 2020 Non-Stop DC Comment via blog Check Granny's letters of the day

As promised, I returned to the 2400 Diner this morning and had a fine breakfast. It's small and operating at reduced capacity which led to the guy who walked in while I returned to my car for the mask I forgot taking the last seat. The wait was short, however. I doubt it was that short for the eight or so people waiting when I left.

Granddad and Granny didn't see Mount Vernon because they didn't want to wait for it to open. I didn't see it because I'd been there once and didn't want to spend the time doing it again. I got a picture, though. I also got a couple pictures of the Potomac. Granddad and Granny must have driven right beside it but there is no mention of it in the letters. Maybe after spending all that time by the ocean in Florida, they were just unimpressed.

My visit to Washington didn't go exactly as planned. I had hoped to briefly stop at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial as we had in 2001, but at noon on a 60° Saturday parking was non-existent. I ended up duplicating the 1921 visit more closely than expected. An exception is that I did not stop at Arlington but merely drove by the entrance. But, like Frank and Gertrude, I drove past the Lincoln Memorial (which was not yet complete when they saw it), and the White House (which was much more visible when they saw it), then decided that it "was such a jam" (surely worse than what they saw) that I too was "glad to get out of town".

I think that when Fredericksburg first came up, I had this place, Frederick, in mind. It's on the National Road and I've stopped here before. It has a really nice park built around a canal. I briefly thought of stopping but the nice weather made it just as busy as Washington had been. I read their Thanksgiving themed message and kept on moving.

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