Traveling to Washington D.C.

I'll be traveling to Washington D.C. in a few days and photographing from before sunrise to after sunset for 4 days (and a half excluding a sunset!). I haven't been in D.C. since before 9/11. If anyone has been there recently and has any travel or photo-related advice please email me or comment here. I would love to hear from you.

I've read in a couple of places that no bags thicker than 4" are allowed on the metro. If that is really being enforced, which I doubt, then it would make taking the metro from the airport to my hotel downtown rather difficult (unless I FedEx my luggage), not to mention going anywhere with a camera which is thicker than 4" even without a camera bag!

I've applied for a Congressional Park land photo permit and heard nothing so far. I'll apply for National Park Service permits next week when I can guess at the weather better. Washington! Bureaucratic red tape! I guess we should feel safer that they are protecting us from all those terrorists with cameras walking around everywhere...

The Eternal Flame at the John F Kennedy grave site. Arlington National Cemetery. Arlington, Virginia.

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