Washington DC

Busboys and Poets: best breakfast of the entire trip

We left New York at 4 in the morning. The bus to DC was a Tesla and it was the first time I had been in one. The ride was smooth and quiet and we reached Washington by 7 or 8. We went straight to Busboys and Poets for breakfast. Easily the best breakfast of the entire two-week trip: good food, good coffee, a completely different calibre from what we had been eating. Then we walked.

We started at Capitol Hill and walked the entire length of the Mall to the Lincoln Memorial. Library of Congress, the Smithsonian museums, the Washington Monument, the Japanese lantern, the Martin Luther King Memorial, the Korean War Memorial. I was always well ahead of everyone else in pace, which I was not entirely aware of until I kept turning around and finding nobody behind me. By the time we reached the Lincoln Memorial the others were done walking. They took a cab to the White House. I walked. We got pictures at the White House and had lunch at Subway at 3 or 4 in the afternoon and took the bus to Philadelphia. A full day.