Day Ten

So here we are in Georgetown. It's a sunny day and we've agreed to do a little sightseeing. We passed the White House, the Treasury building and FBI Headquarters. I wanted to visit the Navy Memorial because a few months ago, a plaque commemorating the submarine I served aboard was added to one of the display walls inside.

There was a Memorial Day speech given by Commander Kirk Lippold of the USS Cole. He was serving as the Commander in October of 2000 when it was attacked by suicide bombers in the Yemeni port of Aden. Seventeen American sailors were killed. He honored those sailors and his speech was very moving.

After his speech, we walked down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol and then north to Union Station where we stopped at the Harley-Davidson store for a tee shirt and then lunch. Sludge made a comment that he wanted to go to the Harley-Davidson store we visited the day before because he wanted to buy cleaning products for his oxidized wheels. When we arrived, there were hundreds of motorcycles parked everywhere! There were a dozen vendors selling everything from patchs to leathers to chrome parts. We bought our supplies and went back to the hotel, cleaned up the bikes and got ready for dinner.

For dinner, we decided on Bertucci's Italian restaurant. The food is pretty good and the price is reasonable. After dinner, we walked around the area and found a local bar that had close to 30 flat screen televisions tuned to an array of sports from basketball to UFC fights.

We were back at the hotel by midnight to get rested for the huge Rolling Thunder Ride the next morning.