We are now settled in to our motel in Rockville, Maryland having arrived around 3:30pm. Rooms are nice and the price is very good at $69/night. Plus we are just about 1.5 miles from the Shady Grove Metro stop which is my old stomping grounds when I lived in DC, so I should know this area pretty well. Even so, we take the Garmin everywhere we go which is a good thing as some of the roads have changed in the past 20 years and it turns out I don’t know my way around as well as I thought.
We (Mike H., Earl, Carlos and me) left Louisville VERY early in the morning today for the drive to D.C. I wanted to leave early because I wasn’t sure how long it would actually take, as based on last year’s trip to Mt Rushmore we made just all kinds of unscheduled stops. As it turned out we did very good on the stops and made it to the DC area in about 10 hours.
We stopped for lunch in western Maryland at a place called the Penn Alps Restaurant. I had last visited there about 25 years ago. Everyone enjoyed their meal. Outside the restaurant is a bridge over the river that George Washington crossed back in 1755 when he was on an expedition with the British Army.
After eating dinner tonight at a local pizza joint, we visited the Metro station where we purchased our ride passes for Friday. Here it was close to 9:00pm and there was still a pretty heavy flow of people getting off the Metro and coming home from work. The traffic around here makes Louisville look like a ghost town.
Tomorrow we take the Metro down to The Mall to visit the Capitol and other sites.
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