Travel Day

The trip to Washington went better then expected, considering that we're dealing with traffic in the district and Metro area.  After 2 stops on 272, I took 222, 30, 83, 695, 70 to MD 27 and 80 to Urbana.  I hit  the Park and Ride 2 min before Dale did, at 1:25 PM.

We loaded up the Sub and headed toward the capital on 270.  We were pleasantly surprised with the trip in along Clara Barton Parkway to K Street.  We were right next to the C & O trail on the way in, so we caught a few glimpses on the way into Georgetown.  Now I'm psyched for the ride.

Arrived at Union Station at 2:40.  The Amtrak staff was a little challenged with the bike boxes, but they were all packed by 3:40.

Beautiful train ride through western MD and western PA.  Work on the Pinkerton Tunnel/cut slowed the train and put us 30 min behind schedule.  We arrived in Pittsburgh around 12:00 midnight, and it took about 20 minutes till we got the bikes, and another 10 to un-box and reassemble them.     The 3 mile ride to the hotel was uneventful , considering it was so late. The nice part was that there was little traffic and the traffic lights were in the blinking yellow mode, which kept us moving. We were in bed by 1:00, tomorrow AM will be rough...