Current mileage total: 5396.
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Having a decent digital camera lets me take all sorts of pics I might not have in the days of film. After all, it cost to process each image! But now, I just point and fire away.

On this trip (and just today in this city), I took shots like this for me (click for larger versions):

(Tree at the White House)

(Eisenhower Old Executive Bldg. dressed for the Queen’s visit)

…and shots like these for my husband:

(Union Station in DC)

(cool building front near Russian Embassy)

(American Chemical Society building)

…and shots like this for my brother John:

(the NAB headquarters, about 8 buildings from my hotel).

So I’ve made it to Washington, DC and, this afternoon (after some hotel issues, sigh), I headed out to walk around a bit. The hotel I’m in is not too far from several major national attractions, including this one (click any image for larger versions):

I actually walked around it quite a bit starting from that north side and then heading to the well known South Lawn, where I met two nice English (young) guys, one of whom took this:

(Please note that it was raining a bit which is why I look a bit disheveled)

Anyway, I walked back around to the other side and lo and behold, this happened:

Yes, they opened a gate. This was actually the second time the gate was opened while I was there. The lawn was calling me. It had already been teased at me once, twice was practically the gods commanding me to try! The urge to run in and just try and make it to the wall of the building was palpable! It’s really not very far and for that brief news cycle, I would be famous! O fickle, fickle fame…within my grasp…but…but…

…but, I remembered my promise to Christopher–I told him I would try not to get arrested in DC (for doing something anti-Bush was the implication, of course).

Sigh.