Washington DC

Salem, VA to Washington DC. Fifty miles on the Interstate, and then 60 miles on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Then 100 miles on US 29 before finishing up on I-66. The last 30 miles into DC was very busy with two slow downs to crawl speed before we go onto city streets and started to hunt our hotel.

We checked in and called Sally. We met at her apartment where a plan was formulated: dinner and a jazz concert at the Capitol. We dined at the Asian Kitchen just around the corner. After a brief pit stop at our respective rooms for the proper shoes, we started to walk over to DC. Hey, the Capitol is just on the other side of the big pointy monument. It was a nice night for a walk and it was a good thing because by my rough measuring on a map it is about 5 miles from where we started. The concert start time was 8:00 PM and when we got close to the Capitol we didn’t here any music. When we finally made it at 8:30 we saw them taking down the signs announcing the event and loading them on a bus. They called it because it might rain. We took the Metro back.

Today’s waterfall, Wigwam, was a mere pup at 30′ compared to the past two days, but the walk to it was a piece of cake, about a hundred yards off the parkway.