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afternoonsnoozebutton:

My favorite view of DC, taken from the top of the Capitol Hill dome (literally, right at the feet of Lady Liberty). It’s a beautiful view, but getting up there is bloody murder. You have to walk up 442 very steep steps, and you must be accompanied by a member of Congress.

That aside, it’s a very pretty view.

The Old Post Office

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Penn & 17th

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sarahlimhf:

Segway-ing down the street

I keep meaning to spend a day in DC doing a Segway tour and a Duckboat tour.  I keep forgetting.

When I lived on Long Island, no one I knew ever went to the city for fun.  When I lived in Orlando I hardly ever went to Disney.  Now that I’m from the DC area the only thing I ever seem to do in DC is work, never touristy things.  Have any other locals ever done either of these and was it worth the bucks?

Man Controlling Trade, Apex Building

Smithsonian Institute:

In 1938, Michael Lantz won the competition to design two sculptures for the Apex Building, home of the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C. The widely publicized “Apex Competition” was the largest American sculpture competition ever held, receiving almost five hundred models from more than two hundred artists. Lantz submitted small models of his designs, each showing a heroic figure straining to control a powerful horse. The final, seventeen-foot-long statues were completed in 1942 and installed outside the eastern entrance of the Federal Trade Commission building, where they can be seen today.

Google Street View

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Sunset along Pennsylvania Ave

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Old Post Office

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Old Post Office

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Newseum Terrace overlooking Pennsylvania Avenue - Washington, DC

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