Woman’s March 2017 Washington, DC

I was lucky to attend the Woman’s March in Washington, DC. I boarded a bus here in St. Petersburg about 3 PM January 20, 2017 and rode all night. In the morning we joined 4 million people in the USA at a march. The largest march in history.

When we got to the bus parking lot five miles out of town in Washington, I had a map as to where we should go to join others from Pinellas County. The map showed a five mile walk down certain streets. It turned out that I did not need the map for the walk into town, all we had to do was follow the crowd, all five miles! People on either side of the road were cheering us on! I saw one Humvee, but no police on the way in.

The location we were to meet up.

Once we got to the meet up point, there were 1000 people there. (see above). We never saw anyone we knew. I tried the phone but all their phones rang busy. So we tried to start the walk down the main street. It was so packed we did not get anywhere. Six of us decided to take a side street and make a loop around and join the march further along. That worked, we were not alone doing that but it was the only way to get from the Capitol down toward the Washington monument.

Looking across to the Capital.
At the Washington monument the crowd thinned out.
The March looked like this, nobody moving.
We stopped for lunch, on the right is the 500 foot long line for the bathroom.
Most signs were not about tRump though.
There were screens set up so we could see and hear the speakers, we never did see where the speakers were though.
The thinned out crowed was heading for the White House, we did not go there.
I was able to get my niece from New Hampshire on the phone She, her daughter and I met up – the Washington monument is in the background.
Some people on a side path.
The US Department of Education. I heard that people counted the participants using aerial photographs. The ones counting that way missed all the people under the buildings, the crowd was wall to wall and inside every building that was open.
How many people are in this photograph? It would have been impossible to count that river of people.
Lots of people, lots of signs.
It was not all women, men and babies all over too. We did see police. They had cars, motorcycles, and bicycles all lined up with the police just watching the procession. Some police were offered the pink hats and wore them with selfies with ladies. I could not get across to where they were in order to get pictures, too many people! The police were having fun, they had nothing to do, the marchers were so well behaved.
Somehow the six of us stayed together and ate dinner together. One of the ladies ordered up two Uber drivers who took us back to the buses.

After a full day and dinner we got on the buses for the long ride home. We got here in St. Petersburg mid morning and, exhausted went home.
The largest march ever!

The central demonstration in Washington, D.C., swelled to more than 500,000 people, which was thought to be more than double the attendance of the presidential inaugural celebration the day before. Other large marches included those in New York City (about 400,000 people), Boston (175,000), Chicago (250,000), Seattle (120,000–175,000), and Los Angeles (500,000–750,000).