day 14, August 21st, Washington

did a fair bit of sightseeing today, starting with the National Portrait Gallery, tremendous, then wandered through the Gallery of African Art, and the Spy Museum. There's something uplifting about art. I say this as someone who flunked 6th form Art History. Portraits in particular are very interesting to me. Then some reading. Retired earlyish. Washington still seems remarkably quiet to me, almost dreamy... about to head off to breakfast and wake up a bit...