BONUS PHOTO 2: A cop driving up Pennsylvania Ave., as part of a motorcade. Everything I’m reading (on Twitter mostly) is suggesting that it was the Presidential motorcade. Obama was scheduled for a fundraiser at 7 PM, and the photo was taken at 7:05. Other people put up videos of the motorcade driving down the mall, …

BONUS PHOTO 1: street musicians in Dupont Circle, in Washington, DC. Apparently this band comes up from somewhere in North Carolina, about twice a month. This was the second time that I’ve seen them.

Welcome to Washington, DC! This picture actually was taken a few days after I arrived. My original entrance into DC was via a freeway that, as far as I could tell, had no welcome sign. That’s it for my trip. Hope you enjoyed the pictures!

with my car keys on my knee i’m a-goin’ ’cross the country up to washington, dc The fog rolled in the day i left the sun shone through the sky the cars so slow, i sped to death susanna don’t you cry Oh, susanna! now don’t you cry for me for i’m driving up the 85, to washington, dc ’Round richmond does the highway …

I stopped in Richmond, VA, for some breakfast. This place, 821 Cafe, came highly recommended on Yelp. The reviews did mention that the place was crawling with hipsters, being next to a college and all. There weren’t many customers at the time, but all the waiters were guys in plaid shirts. And beards. Including the …

The fog parted briefly for me to take a few pictures of the sunrise through the trees. I actually saw the sun pop up, but the window of opportunity was too short to get a decent picture. This was taken on I-85, just inside Virginia.

Welcome to Virginia!

We’re on the last stretch of the trip! Today I’m going from Durham, NC up I-85 and 95 to Washington, DC. I’m leaving at 6 AM to avoid the traffic and also get in early enough to take care of moving things in. So the road is entirely covered in fog. Here it wasn’t so thick, but in other places I couldn’t see more than …

road trips there are not forgotten look away! look away! look away, dixie land In dixie land where i did travel on through memphis, on through nashville look away! look away! look away, dixie land I’m driving down i-40 hooray! hooray! through giant clouds and buffet crowds i’ll make my way through dixie my way, my …

North Carolina saw me driving through the worst rainstorm I’ve ever been through. It started fairly reasonably, with a small trickle, which is when I took this picture. Pretty soon, though, it was pouring so fast that the windshield wipers couldn’t even keep the windshield clear. Visibility dropped to at most 20 yards …