K- I am a walker. I love to walk the city be it NYC, London, Paris, wherever because I find that’s the best way to find the most interesting places. DC is such a “walkable” city. Yeah, you got Metro, Uber, taxis and buses but why when you can easily walk from Georgetown to Penn Quarter or Dupont Circle to the Smithsonian?
Through walking I’ve found places like Firefly – a restaurant off New Hampshire that has a great happy hour, Propper Topper – a cute little shop that carries the coolest hats for women and men among other items, Tiny Jewel Box – an amazing jewelry store with a very knowledgeable owner and Petersen House – where President Lincoln took his final breath.
These are places I may have heard about, seen on the Internet or some other place but may not have necessarily visited. But walking around the city and coming upon them made me want to go inside, if not that day then another. I admit I walked past them quite a few times before I went inside but I know that I never would have if I hadn’t.
Besides coming upon interesting places the other great thing about walking is looking at the architecture. There are some amazing buildings and old houses in the area. There is the Old Stone House in Georgetown built in 1765; the Willard Hotel built in 1816; Carnegie Library on 801 K St. NW built in 1902 and the Patterson Mansion (the Washington Club) at Dupont Circle was built in 1903 and that’s not including all of the other old houses in that area.
So next time you’re thinking of taking the bus to Foggy Bottom, taxi to U Street or Metro to Penn Quarter, take a walk. You’ll never know what you’ll find!
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