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Monday, August 30, 2004
Still on the road, and much less enthused about it. After getting through the last hundred miles of Tennessee, we spent the entire rest of the day driving the length of Virginia so that we could get to DC for rush hour.
We’re finally back in the land of unsweetened iced tea now, so we must be out of the South. Grant Randall, of Alexandria Bavarian Service, took us to dinner to make a sweet end to a pretty tiring day. Mmmm….crab cakes.
Tuesday, August 31, 2004
Alexandria, Virginia. Up in the morning and off to work---at Alexandria Bavarian Service----on Debbie’s 2002. Reglued a few rubber and carpet pieces back in place, looked to see what was damaged from running over a tire in the night (just more air dam cracks), replaced worn shifter parts, and generally looked things over. Alles in ordnung.
Debbie and Rhett
rode the Metro train downtown to see the police state---all the big
monuments are now barricaded off and roving police
bands are everywhere.
About noon we said goodbye to Grant, Bill, Art and the boys and headed north around Washington, past Baltimore to our country home for a day in Forest Hill, Maryland. Jim Kramer and Chris Depkin are old friends from our days as cave explorers and they have a wonderfully restful and welcoming home in the hills and forests of northern Maryland. We had built into our schedule an extra day in case of mechanical problems and now that we have none, we have a day of rest at the ranch.
We started our rest day with a great home cooked meal of crab cakes with another old caver friend, Gil Edigar, catching up on rumors and gossip. And a fine time was had by all.