Wednesday, January 28, 2009

January 20: The Approach to DC




On Inauguration Day, the parking lot at the Shady Grove Metro station in Maryland opened at 3:30 AM and the first train departed for DC at 4 AM. Metro planned to run 17 consecutive hours of rush hour service that day and we had no idea what to expect when we arrived...







We got off the Metro at Union Station. When we made it above ground, the sun had not yet risen on the the Capitol.