Point of Entry – I-66 Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Bridge
I first saw DC from a Continental flight as it banked on approach to BWI in January of 1998. I looked out the window and was looking directly down on the Washington Monument shining bright in the night. Planes don’t fly that way any more.
The first time I actually set foot in DC was the Sunday of Memorial Day that year. We’d been driving since Houston and were on our way to our new home in Baltimore. We decided to drive through to see the sites.
We crossed the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge arriving near the Lincoln Memorial. Unfortunately, this was in the middle of the annual Rolling Thunder. The motorcycles were so thick on the road and parked along the mall that I quite literally couldn’t even tell for sure where the road was. Fortunately, our purple Plymouth Voyager was high enough to see over all the bikes. My wife navigated and we hit the road again.
Living so close to Washington, we’ve made many trips there over the years. We’ve taken my parents, my in-laws, my sister and her family, visiting church leaders, interns, friends, and many others. We've now got a pretty good attack plan for taking people on tour of the city.
We’ve taken the kids there several times, too. It’s a good day trip/escape for us.
Though we’ve been there many times we’ve only begun to see the many sites in DC. Plus, with new things opening all the time, like the new MLK memorial, there are always more reasons to hop the Metro and go down into our nation’s capital and bring more memories back home.
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