We started out our day with some apprehension. We were told that it was next to impossible to get a parking spot at the Metro station which is about 4 miles from the church/house...Next to the station is a Baptist church with an empty lot. As we pulled int the lot and went up to the church door, a man in a pickup drove up. He was the "keeper" of the lot. We told him we were the caretakers for the AC Church/House of which he was familiar. He told us to park in the lot and return on Monday to get a pass for the whole month!! (The Lord was with us!!)
We took the Metro downtown, transfered and took another one out to Reagan National Airport to see where we are going to meet Heather on Monday. Took another Metro to the Capitol and ate lunch in the visitors area. Got back on the Metro, (by this time we are regular/knowledgable riders), I believe at one point even Joe Biden stopped us and asked for directions seeing that we were veteran city riders.
Grabbed a Metro back to Silver Spring and are settling in for a restful Friday night-----Today WAS a good day. The only problem we had was going through the metal detectors at the Capital. My titanium hips had Metro police running for blocks around :) :) Jerry
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Your account made me laugh hard. Familiarity is truly worth a lot and well worth any orientation one can try to get - even if alone. When on the Metro, if and when you hear the words "next stop Crystal City", think of my parents. That's where the folks lived from 1986-91 and got on and off there all day long. They lived directly above that Metro stop and Dad could go from home to his office door at the USDA with hardly seeing the out-of-doors. Thus, he never carried an umbrella! In fact, if time permits sometime, get off at Crystal City and browse the underground "shopping center" there.
Cleve
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