Now that I'm somewhat recovered...

[raisedbymoogles]

So yes. Headed up to D.C. after work yesterday and met rosieknight by the elephant in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. ^_^ I have been jonesing to see the Hall of Human Origins since I first heard of it, but we wandered through the Sant Ocean Hall, a truckload of colonial bones, and SPARTAAAAA first. Then we walked a couple blocks down to the

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[chibirisuchan]

...you just segfaulted my brain. XDDDD

Because I've lived within 50 miles of the same point all my life (aside, of course, from the international trips), my subconscious mental map of the world has a stick pin at my town. Day trips from my town are usually within a state or maybe two. Also, the bigger/more well-known a city is, the less likely it is that it's anywhere within a day trip of my rinky dink corner of podunksville. :D

So when people mention things like "stopped over in Washington DC" (or, from a professor in Wales, "I think I'll drive up to London tomorrow"), some little lizardthing in the back of my head screeches and falls over splat. Then it takes my mental space map a few minutes to reorient itself and realize that in some places it's perfectly reasonable to be able to drive to a famous place within the space of a single day, and even more, in free time after work. ^^;;;;;;

(take this phenomenon x2 for the "drive to London" part, where the lizard in my head insists "but there has got to be an ocean between wherever

[raisedbymoogles]

Oops! *reboots you*

Yeah, I live about 30min from DC assuming optimal traffic conditions - but since 'optimal traffic conditions' around here never happens, I take the bus and Metro and it takes a little under an hour. XD So it's feasible to spend an afternoon in DC when I work half-days.

If you're ever in the area, I shall squire you around. :D?

[chibirisuchan]

That is like jawdroppingly amazing to me. XD Sure, if I ever get there, I'd love the Moogletour!

(And if you're ever in this neck of the woods, I can return the favor! Let's see... navigation around the university is largely given in terms of "you know that red brick building in the middle of all the other red brick buildings? Yeah, (insert building name here) is the brick one. No, the other brick one. Past the other brick ones." Also, I know where there are lots of cornfields. And soybeans. And then sometimes cornfields and soybeans next to each other. And lots and lots of sky. Can't miss that part. People from places with actual landscape have been known to worry about falling off on account of there being too much sky... XD)

[raisedbymoogles]

Yay! *waves little flag, is Moogletour guide!*

Sounds like the area my extended family lives in. Hence why I bring lots of books whenever we go visit them. XD

[rosieknight]

They really need chairs by the elephant's head in the Natural History Museum.

Jazz and the Spec Ops crew ever leave the Spy Museum? ;D

I'm glad you had time to recover. That's going to be me, tomorrow. Recovering from the trip.