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#78 - City Segway's Moonlight Tour of Washington, DC
29/09/2007
Today we take the City Segway's Moonlight Tour of Washington. We recommend you use the Gallery Place/Chinatown Metro stop to get to City Segway, which is across the street from the National Portrait Gallery.
After signing disclaimers and paying, we meet our tour guide, Matt, who spends a half hour or so teaching us all how to ride Segways. Then we set off for a long ride down H Street and New York Avenue, with little to see, but lots of broad sidewalks to practice our newly developed Segway skills. We share only a little of Matt's beginning talk. (2:40)
We let Matt talk about the buildings near the White House, including the Treasury and Blair House. (9:37)
We pass the White House and head south of 17th street, into the night. We head around the Elipse, and begin to hear thunder. We protect the machines with disposable plastic ponchos, and a rainstorm begins. (12:10)
We begin heading down Constitution Avenue and past the Smithsonian.
(14:40)
We play Code Monkey by Jonathan Coulton. This is used by permission, and under the terms of Jonathan's Creative Commons License.
Soon after we pass the National Museum of Natural History we begin to get rain. After a few stops and starts, after we visit the National Archives, the sky opens up. We take shelter at the National Gallery of Art's East Building which has a large sheltered porch. (21:18)
Once the lightning moves a little bit away from where we are, we leave the National Gallery of Art, and head on toward the Capitol in the rain. we ride the Segways around the Capitol. (27:50)
After leaving the Capitol grounds, we head on up Pennsylvania Avenue, past the Navy Memorial and Ford's Theatre before returning to the Segway shop to end our tour. (35:43)
Email us at:
feedback@washingtontravelcast.net Julie@washingtontravelcast.net Mark@washingtontravelcast.netOur Opening Theme Music is Garden Walk by Kim Evans, and our logo design is by Kathleen Hamm at Hamm Multimedia.
We have a limited but interesting Photo Album of the first half of the tour, before the rain started.
No Podcast 9/22
22/09/2007
Work pressures, life pressures, and Xtreme business, have prevented our posting this week. If we were a regular radio show, we'd do a rerun. We suggest, as a rerun our podcast #2, Capitol Hill!
Back next week with a Segway Tour of DC!
Julie
#77 - Tourmobile
17/09/2007
Today we take a tour on Tourmobile, Washington DC's on and off tour busses of the mall area and Arlington Cemetery. We started at Union Station but you can get on anywhere along the route. Convenient areas might include Smithsonian Station, the Washington Monument and Arlington Cemetery.
We start out with some logistics, how to get tickets at Union Station, and what the Tourmobile is all about. (2:00)
We take the Tourmobile route from Union Station to Arlington Cemetery. (5:37)
We play Security Girl by DC Recording artist Joe Shade. His music comes to us courtesy of the Podsafe Music Network. (15.53)
We switch busses and take the tour of Arlington Cemetery, which has three sites, the Kennedy Gravesite, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and the Custis Lee Mansion. (19:10)
We return to the regular bus, return to DC and complete the circuit, ending up at Union Station. (26:11)
Our Theme Music is Garden Walk by Kim Evans.
Incidental music during the walk is from find me by H.
You can email us at feedback@washingtontravelcast.com. You can Skype us via skype name JulieorMark, and Julie answers Washington DC travel questions on Yahoo! Answers.
Our Tourmobile Photo Album gives you a better idea of what the tour is like!
#76 - DC Ducks Tour of Washington, DC
09/09/2007
Today we take the DC Ducks Tour of Washington. We recommend you use the Union Station metro stop to get to the start of the DC Ducks tour which is at Union Station.
After talking about the logistics of the tour, we head out in front of Union Station, ready to start the tour. Our tour guide, Cap'n Hap, starts us out along Louisiana Avenue, visiting some of the locations that we visited on our earlier, Capitol Hill, Tour. (4:19)
We head on to the Federal Triangle area, and follow it from the Archives to Freedom Plaza. (8:21)
We talk about the route through Washington, head into Virginia, past National Airport. At Gravelley Point we go in the water. (12:10)
We play Six Little Ducks, performed by the Rockosaurus Rex. This came to us courtesy of the Podsafe Music Network. (14:14)
We enter the Potomac at Graveley point, watch the planes take off from National Airport, appreciated the view in the river, and get Quackers. This is a very silly portion of our podcast (16:56)
We exit the Potomac at Graveley Point, also, and we head back into the District of Columbia. (27:33)
We head back to the mall, past the Smithsonian, and stop in front of the Capitol Building, before we return to Union Station, at the end of our tour. (30:06)
Email us at:
feedback@washingtontravelcast.net Julie@washingtontravelcast.net Mark@washingtontravelcast.netOur Opening Theme Music is Garden Walk by Kim Evans, and our logo design is by Kathleen Hamm at Hamm Multimedia.
We have an extensive Photo Album of our DC Ducks tour.
#75 - Shenandoah National Park, Part 2
31/08/2007
We finish our visit to Shenandoah National Park.
We start at Mary's Rock Tunnel, just a bit south of the Thornton Gap entrace to the park. We talk about the building of Mary's Rock Tunnel, and the history of the founding and construction of Shenandoah National Park. (3:55)
We play Two Roads, performed by the Woodshedders, which comes to us via the Podsafe Music Network. (10:58)
We visit Stony Man Overlook and talk some more about the haze. (14:54)
We visit Skyland Lodge, and talk about the guest services here. (17:02)
We finish up at Big Meadows, and visit the new Byrd Visitor's Center. (26:11)
Our Theme Music is Garden Walk by Kim Evans.
Incidental music during the walk is from find me by H, and from the National Park Service's Radio Broadcast at Mile 0 of Skyline Drive.
You can email us at feedback@washingtontravelcast.com. You can Skype us via skype name JulieorMark, and Julie answers Washington DC travel questions on Yahoo! Answers.
Our Shenandoah Part 2 Photo Album has some really great pictures today!
