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Recover some pics from our 2010 roadtrip

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These were in an old album of mine called 'Other Social Networks'.
Most/all picasaweb pictures are lost in the winds, unfortunately.
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@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ funny story - paul and i went in to have breakfast, and of course this was "amer
so we got our change, dropped it into the into the meter, and allowed ourselves 2hrs to see the smithsonian museum for aviation and space. it was -awesome-. Marina and I went to the Tech in San Jose, but it was terrible: a lot of displays were broken, badly lit, very poor overall - this one however was very very good - a lot of real life planes, air craft, space craft, a replica of the UCCP first lunar mission, apollo 11 (or 17, we forget... oh wait Paul looked it up, it was 11 after all) and a lot of really awesome displays of space and avionics. I particularly enjoyed the engine technology, coming from the early days, and leading up and until the hubble satellite which, I might add, is considerably large. We took many awesome pictures - which we'll try to post tomorrow on the picasa page.
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then, we drove our car to a car park up northwest of the white house, parked it (for 20$ OMG) and walked over to the white house, took the pictures we need to take to feel like real tourists, and walked down the green medow-'y parks to the american mall -and then to capitol. but while we were at it, we may as well have visited the great american history museum (also a smithsonian institute) - and we loved it! it was very meticulous, full of history and details. we learned so much about presidency, technology, people and the things that make america the great nation it is today. thank you, institute, for teaching us these things!
from the smithsonian we walked to the capitol, a huge building, again full of snipers and guards, but otherwise quite friendly for tourists, and took some pictures (with normal cam and the fish eye lens). And then we cabbed it back to our car on 2021 K street.