District of Columbia 2018
Washington, District of Columbia
Wednesday, January 24 through Sunday, January 28, 2018
We flew from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to Dulles International Airport in Virginia, west of Washington DC. We rode a bus from/to the airport to/from our hotel, and walked most other places within Washington. We did ride the metro (subway) a few times. We spent the large majority of our time visiting various Smithsonian Institution museums.
I tracked the trip with a Bad Elf GPS Pro+ GPSr (GPS receiver), using my iPhone 8 (Gaia app) as a backup (along with the FlightRadar24 website). Of course, the GPSr couldn't track us underground, so the subway travel is not correctly shown. The GPSr also had great difficulties with indoor tracking, and several of the GPX files have been edited to remove the most egregious tracking errors.
NOTE: the downloadable GPX tracks are the full GPX files, while those shown on the provided "view map" links are simplified (with minimal effect on geographic accuracy) for much faster viewing.
Original GPX tracks are unedited, except as noted above.
Businesses are named below for reference only. No endorsement should be inferred. If you wish to see my opinion of the places mentioned, see TripAdvisor (for those that I have actually rated).
Overview
- Overview map—This is a composite map of all the GPS tracks on a blank US/Canada map.
- All GPS tracks / view map—The whole trip, including walking, riding, etc.
Wednesday, January 24
- GPX / view map —Driving to the airport in Oklahoma City.
- GPX / view map —Walking through Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City. The underground portion of this walk has some very noticeable GPS tracking errors.
- GPX / view map —Flying from Oklahoma City to Dulles (Virginia) International Airport.
- GPX / view map —Walking and riding the bus at Dulles International Airport in Virginia.
- GPX / view map —Riding the bus from Dulles (Virginia) International Airport to (very) near our hotel in Washington DC.
- GPX / view map —Walking the rest of the way to the hotel in Washington DC.
- GPX / view map —Walking from our hotel to the National Museum of Natural History, within the museum, and back to the hotel.
- GPX / view map —Walking from our hotel to the nearest Metro station, then to our dinner spot (Oyamel), and back. GPS tracking errors occurred with the underground portion of the travel.
Thursday, January 25
- GPX / view map —Walking from our hotel to/through the National Air and Space Museum and back.
- GPX / view map —Walking/taking the Metro from the hotel to the National Portrait Gallery, then to dinner (Cuba Libre) and back. We also walked around the area near Cuba Libre while waiting for a table.
Friday, January 26
- GPX / view map —Walking from the hotel to the Hirshhorn Museum of Art, the National Museum of American History, and dinner at Rasika Flavors of India...and back to the hotel.
Saturday, January 27
- GPX / view map —Walking to the Freer/Sackler galleries to see Asian art, then to fairly near the Washington Monument and Department of Commerce building, and finally to (revisit) the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of American History.
- GPX / view map —Walking/taking Metro from hotel to DuPont Circle and to dinner at Boqueria...and back to the hotel.
Sunday, January 28
- GPX / view map —Walking from the hotel to the National Museum of Natural History, the Air and Space Museum, back to the hotel (to pick up our stored luggage), and then to the bus stop for our ride to the airport.
- GPX / view map —Bus ride from near our hotel to Dulles International Airport, Virginia.
- GPX / view map —Walking/riding (bus) at Dulles International Airport, Virginia.
- GPX / view map —Flying from Dulles (Virginia) International Airport to Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
- GPX / view map —Walking at Will Rogers World Airport. GPS tracks in the terminal building show significant errors.
- GPX / view map —Driving from the airport.
