The Best Of

People regularly ask us what our favourite place has been, what things we’ve done, best this, best that and the highlights of our 50 Shades of DC adventure. People are always the first thing that comes to mind – we have met some interesting, kind, strange and memorable people and have been lucky to make some life long friends.  As time passes though, it’s hard to pick one best thing but there are certainly highlights that will always be up there on my WOW list. I will update this list as the last year progresses as there are sure to be some more things to add.

Best Place We’ve Visited – Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming - read here, and here

Close 2^nd Place – Denver and Boulder, Colorado - read here

                                and Alaska - read Alaska Cruise, read Anchorage

Other standout favourites – Boston here , Philadelphia here

There are many experiences that have been memorable and special to me. Here are but a few:

History

• Seeing the original signed US Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights
• Gettysburg - driving around the civil war site - read here
• Sat on Lincoln memorial steps many times
• Seeing the memorials and running around them many times - read here
• Memphis African American Civil Rights Museum - read here

Places and Things

• Kennedy Space Centre, Orlando Florida - read here
• Motown Museum, Detroit Michigan - read here
• White House Tour - read here
• Private tour of Capitol Hill - read here
• The Library of Congress - read here
• ANZAC service at National Cathedral - read here
• Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Washington DC - read here
• All the museums in DC - read here
• New York – Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty, seeing the Concorde, 2017 New Year Cruise - read here, read more here
• Ben and Jerrys Ice Cream Factory – Vermont - read here
• Running up the Rocky steps – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - watch here
• JFK Museum – Dallas, Texas - read here
• Batman Exhibit – Hollywood Musuem, Los Angeles - read here
• Presidents at Mt. Rushmore – Black Hills, South Dakota - read here
• Niagara Falls – Buffalo, New York - read here

Sports

• Nationals Baseball and Capitals Ice Hockey including dogs day at the baseball - read here
• Capitals with the Stanley Cup - watched with all of DC in the street - Caps Win
• Running over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Annapolis Maryland - read here
• 200 mile relay run from Gettysburg to DC – American Odyssey Relay, ran twice - 2017 race, watch here, 2018 race

Concerts

• The Eagles at Nationals Stadium - Eagles
• Aretha Franklin at Wolftrap - Aretha
• KISS and Boy George and Culture Club -   KISS and Culture Club here
• Daryl Hall and John Oates -  Hall and Oates

Other cool things

• Riding on a yellow school bus - read here
• Snow days - read here
• Christmas, White House Xmas Tree and silly sweaters - read here, more here
• Riding on a yellow school bus again - read here

Stay tuned for further updates as we are planning to see the Grand Canyon and I'm hoping to do a Train and Greyhound Bus hop through the mid-US.