Local sights

It seems like everywhere I live, there are local attractions that I somehow don't manage to visit. I lived in the Bay Area for a couple of years but didn't get to Alcatraz until a later return trip. Same with the Getty Museum in L.A., the Tinguely Museum in Basel, and probably lots of things in New York. (I'm pretty sure I managed to hit all the sights in Durham, NC, however.)

As for DC, I've never been to Mount Vernon, the Holocaust Museum...or the annual drag races (and I'm not talking about cars) every year around Halloween. It seems like a very DC thing to do, but somehow I'm finding it hard to envision a year any time soon when I'd say to Gretchen, "hey, let's get Mädchen and go downtown in the freezing cold and watch a bunch of men in drag run down the street!" Such a sheltered life we lead these days...