Day 8 - Washington DC

No Duff or Geoff in sight...shucks!

Today we piled into Anne's pickup truck and drove down to Washington DC. We're staying north of Philadelphia and on the way to DC is Baltimore. You know what's in Baltimore? Charm City Cakes!! Unfortunately they state very clearly on their website that they don't want visitors. So we just did a drive-by. Surprisingly, they are located in an extremely unappealing part of town. The kind of place where you lock your doors at the stop light.

We stopped at a gas station to use the bathroom, and there was this guy using the pay phone who was lost and asking for directions. We didn't know what the cross street was. As Anne put it, we were between "Scary Street" and "Holy Crap Avenue", right around the corner from "Get Me The Hell Out of Here!!"

In DC, we parked way out of town and took the Metrorail in. The station where we boarded the train has the single longest escalator I've ever seen and the coolest looking boarding platform. We hopped on the Metrorail and got off at the beautiful Union Station right downtown. Easy peasy.

Escalator at the Wheaton Metrorail Station in DC is so long you can hardly see the bottom.

Boarding platform for the Metrorail. Very cool!

Union Station in DC