Washington DC

Sep 8, 2015
2 min read

I arrived in Washington DC at the city centre Amtrack station then got my bearings before cycling to my hosts apartment with it's view of the Polish Embassy directly outside and the White House in the distance to it's left. My hosts Chris and Dani worked for the Washington Post and a local school and their apartment was a fantastic location for me to be a total tourist. After dinner and before it got to dark I did my movie location hunt and cycled through the beautiful Georgetown to the house and steps from the legendary film The Exorcist. I leaned my bicycle against the bottom of the steps that Father Damien Karras fell down after he launched himself out of the window to rid himself of the spirit that had invaded his mind. There was a bit of graffiti on the bottom step that showed I wasn't the only one who had taken this type of shot.

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Dinner with my hosts was really chilled and I enjoyed hearing about their work. It turns out Chris became interested in journalism after being given a copy of a local newspaper from the day JFK was assassinated, how surreal that I only visited the site of this a few days earlier.

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On my second day I cycled down to the famous Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool with the statue of the great man at one end and the Washington Monument at the other. It was also a site of of many famous movies including Forest Gump. I later cycled across the Potomac River to the Arlington National cemetery to see the grave of JFK and talk a sombre but relaxing walk around such an inspiring location. For the afternoon I visited the Washington Museum then cycled by the White House and took some good photographs of me and my bicycle with it in the background. No sign of Obama though, typical.