Souvenirs of Washington DC's Metro (subway)

Transit fans might like this one. These are some tickets Linda and I used on our trip last week to Washington, DC. The vertical one shows a typical Metrorail station and are refillable. The three horizontal ones are day passes and feature President Obama. For $14 you can ride the subway as much as you want that day. However, it does not cover buses. Not a problem in our case. In the upper-left are two $1 US coins. They are dispensed as change for the paper bills you put into the ticket vending machine. However, and this is really stupid and annoying, you cannot put them back in the machine to buy your partner's ticket. It doesn't accept dollar coins! Seriously? What the hell?

We kept two because they were shiny and brand new. Lady Liberty is on one side of all coins. Thomas Jefferson's portrait is shown. Not shown is George Washington. We had several others which we were able to use as cash elsewhere. I didn't think Americans were big on dollar coins. We also got a Susan B. Anthony dollar elsewhere but it was in pretty rough shape. It got spent somewhere, too. We dumped as much coinage as possible on our last day. Not much point keeping it. The bank will not exchange it so you're stuck with them until next time.

The map centres on Gallery Place - Chinatown Station where we ended up a lot.

Have a look back at the past 5 days. I've back-blipped the Washington, DC trip.