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Posted by BEI Design on July 23, 2007, 2:16 pm
Cappy wrote:
> Loved your trip diary! Glad you had such a good time!
> And a lot of it in my backyard. I have lived in the DC
> suburbs almost all my life and am realizing just how much
> I have taken for granted. All the museums and the zoo
> and whatnot...
We could easily have spent a month in each of the cities,
but time and budget constraints made that impossible.
> You mention exiting the Mall after the 4th's festivities.
> One of the things that happens then is that the Dept. of
> Homeland Security and local police tests patterns on
> traffic lights and other modes of transport so that
> people can get out of the city quickly. The 4th is one
> of their best test nights. If they ever needed to
> evacuate downtown, they have a plan!
I can fully understand using that night as a test. For the
most part people were very courteous, and everything went
well. I'm not so sure any of that would apply in an
evacuation emergency, though.
> Your itinerary reminded me of a funny thing that happened
> one day at work. I worked at a garden center/florist on
> Rt. 1. Rt. 1 is the national road that goes from Maine
> to Key West, FL. We were between Baltimore MD and
> Washington DC. A European gentleman came in asking for
> directions. He had just come from the Baltimore airport
> and was heading south to DC. After driving around to DC,
> he was going to head up to NYC and Boston. And he was
> going to do this all in one day! He didn't quite grasp
> the size of our continent! After we explained that it
> was at least 8 hours to Boston on a good day on the
> freeway, he dragged out a map and we figured out some
> other places for him to visit. grin Fun memory....
ROTFLOL! We actually tried very hard to build travel time
into our plans, but still ended up eliminating a few hoped
for sights, simply because the 'getting there' was too time
consuming. I really regretted not going to the Guggenheim,
for instance. But mostly we did manage everything we had
planned for.
Beverly
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