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Washington, DC
The newest piece of the much larger Smithsonian, the National Museum of the American Indian is on the Mall, between the Air and Space Museum and the Capitol, and was the only (moderately) busy museum in an otherwise great weekend to travel. The museum (open since late September) packs them in with a well produced movie that graphically depicts cutting apart dead whales, a fine collection of artifacts, a cafe that sells buffalo burgers and a shop that sells painfully small $200 handcrafted baskets.
The exterior of the National Museum of the American Indian is all curvy stone and really quite interesting for a museum on the Mall in such a prominent location.
While I still maintain that the World War II Memorial doesn't do that good of a job expressing the complexity and importance of such a great and horrible war, it is inarguably still a fine example of how to use uplighting.
Everyone loves Dan Flavin's sculptures. Or, more accurately, I love Dan Flavin's sculptures. Or, more accurately, I love Dan Flavin's sculptures sometimes.
After all of these Washington DC pictures, we’re ending the 2004 Weekend Trips Slideshow in a surprise visit to South Carolina, on a weekday afternoon, when a break in a one day work trip gave me just enough time to find my way to the beach.
This is off season Myrtle Beach, looking out at the calm cold Atlantic. My previous job included one work travel trip, an especially uncomfortable overnight road trip up to Athens, Pennsylvania, often referred to as nothing because no one know where the hell Athens, Pennsylvania is. My current job has a promising travel component, one of the reasons I like it, and this one day trip to the airport (where my meeting actually was) ended up with about three hours of free time. I walked over to the car rental desk, ended up with a PT Cruiser that felt like it might tip over every time I turned, and drove the five miles or so to the state park and the pier, where I enjoyed the fresh air and killed time until my flight back home.
