Independence Avenue is one of my favorite streets in Washington D.C. I usually start at the Library of Congress. A stop there is always fun. Looking down over the empty library book viewing area is funny to me. All those books, and I am a book lover, yet there is no one bothering to read them. I usually take another gaze at the Guttenberg Bible that is on display there under glass. Then they have a variety of traveling displays that are really entertaining. The last one I saw was on Bob Hope.

Take Independence Avenue west toward the Smithsonian museums. I like the Aero Space one the best. There are some really interesting displays and everything is authentic – no replicas in there. Independence Avenue runs between museums that back up onto the grassy Mall and many institutional looking buildings of government like the Departments of Agriculture, Education, Energy, and Health and Human Services. I usually visit my sister-in-law who works with the FFA, also on Independence Avenue.