On The Road Again

#1. Victory for the day: the O’Hare remote tram is running again!! Whee! You just have to park, get on a bus, wind through the depths of O’Hare remote parking and then get dropped off at the Tram, which is *across the street* from where you parked. It’s pretty awesome. 

#2. Slight wrinkles in your pants (or masks in your back pockets) will earn you a TSA pat-down. 

#3. Dulles has this people mover that is disconcertingly like an AT-AT. We climbed aboard and trusted the operator to navigate us across the tarmac and avoid airplanes. 

#4.  The Mayflower Hotel is cool and historic and hosts parties on Wednesday nights that we aren’t invited to. 

#5. The National Postal Museum has a slightly bizarre exhibit dedicated to a dog who rode the rails with mailmen and collected tags from all across the US.  They have the actual taxidermied dog on display. His name is Owney. 

#6. “The Presidents” section of the National Portrait Gallery is really interesting. Norman Rockwell managed to make Richard Nixon seem human.  

We liked Bill Clinton’s portrait but think we may have enjoyed it more if we had been chemically altered. 

We have lots of questions about James Buchanan, but mostly we want to know if this expression is “Blue Steel” or “Magnum?”

And on that note, we need to go to bed. It’s late and we have a big day tomorrow.