March 2-4
March 2.
Well, we're at the last major trip I've taken up till now. After this, it'll be me talking about prior trips (I'm considering Bilbao 2016 and then Barcelona/Madrid 2016, maybe even possibly Bilbao 2017) and my upcoming/recently completed trips.
I've never been to DC, and I think it's great that my friend/travel buddy has family in cities like Boston who are more than willing to have someone like me join my friend on her trips, because I get it, sometimes having an extra person whom you don't know in your house can be kind of daunting, but it sounds like she talks about me to her family and they feel like they can trust me, so I'm okay with that.
Anyway, we booked the bus tickets and headed up after work to the Port Authority Bus Terminal to head down there. We had some really nasty weather that day in New York; one of those really nasty sleet storms, that's half rain and half snow, plus lots of wind. We heard rumors that down in DC it was also really bad, but no word on any cancelled buses, so we left.
Well, we got into Delaware on I-95, and we stopped at a rest area to switch drivers. It was then announced that all traffic on I-95 by the Chesapeake Bridge that spans the DC metro area was closed off. So we were stuck in Delaware until further notice. It's 9:30 pm by this point, and I'm exhausted, my friend is exhausted, and I didn't have the energy to care one way or the other what was going on. My friend wasn't having any of it after all, she decided, so she was going to do something crazy. It's always an adventure.
