travel // adventure to washington, district of columbia

Precious Abby, the history queen, and sweet Caroline, like no other that I know—a true, hard-core patriot. The level of excitement that these two displayed was priceless; being eyewitnesses to American history and experiencing first-hand what they have only read in books and seen in pictures is an unparalleled, home-grown, proud to be an American kind of amazement. There are no other humans that I would have rather of toured the District of Columbia with than them. 

From the initial adventure of riding the metro, exploring the capital, eating bbq chicken pizza, hopping in-and-out of museums and touring monuments, the three of us had an unforgettable time in the Nation's capital.  

It is impossible to come away from this type of adventure without a grateful heart for freedom and a humbleness, realizing that it is an extreme blessing to be a citizen of the United States of America. Walking through the city, liberty's songs fill your soul:

Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

O, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand,
Between their lov'd homes and the war's desolation;
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserv'd us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust"
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!