Day 1: Getting to DC

Stepping out of my office on Friday night, just after 7pm, I began my Great American Roadtrip, 2.0. I dub it 2.0 because I'm joining my sweetie Jared, who started said road trip back on September 1st. He drove from Oakland, our home, north east to NY and then to DC to meet me. (Check his adventures getting there on http://blogabond.com/JRadhirsch ) So he gets to have the 1.0 leg of the trip.

My first "wow, never saw that before" moment was exiting the BART train at SFO airport, and going up the escalator to pass through the coolest artistic treatment for a public transit station ever. I didn't expect to see anything that cool, and so my camera was packed... but I think it really deserves a video. Kinetic art. Worth taking BART to SFO, methinks. Check it out when you can.

I got to experience a new kind of security check at the airport, and was told to stand in a vertical cylinder while they shot high speed blasts of air at me. Made me feel as though I had survived acting in a bad Sci Fi film.

The flight was good as I slept through most of it. I needed that. Especially since I hit the ground running upon my welcome to DC, our nation's capitol. Next...

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Justine Smith on September 22, 2008 from San Francisco, United States

from the travel blog: The Great American Roadtrip 2.0

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