Toward the end of my fathers life my sister, father, husband and I went to Alexandra Virginia . Dad, Randolph Wortman, could give us addresses of places things happened in he's life but he couldn't remember what happened their . Dad came back every day for a nap at the hotel but the minute that was over where are we going next the temperatures were up around 100 so we didn't go to Washington .
I came up with the idea of taking a boat trip we found a air conditioned boat that served meals and went up and down the Potomac river .
They served a brunch and it took 3 hours dad loved looking out the windows on the boat seeing a lot of sites he use to guard as a young man .
When dad was young you couldn't even vote if you lived in Washington D.C. to be a police officer he had to have recommendation of people from he's home district house and senate plus he had to pass a test and be able to shoot a gun growing up on a farm helped out their dad was second in he's class in marksmanship.
Dad meet mom, Ethel Stephens, in Washington her parents and grandparents were dead and she was living with a aunt Anna and Uncle Eddie .
Dad loved seeing Aunt Katherine my mothers bast friend from her childhood and her sister Dolly .
They lived in a house their grandfather had made . Their parents had lived their years ago to.
I need to go back to Washington ride the subway stay in a hotel or something my uncle no longer lives their .
He has moved to a small town in Virginia .
