The sunset in D.C.
Day 35: Charlottesville to Fredericksburg, VA
(then to Odenton via Senior Airman Switz)
The previous four days held their banner high and mighty, waving and daunting: "WE ARE THE APPALACHIANS HILLS, AND WE ARE MANY!" But the fight was fought and after the dust had settled, Aaron and Les (tour the US!) took home the victory cake (which was in the shape of Senior Airman Paul Switz), but not before one last day of beautiful, but tiresome, Virginia country-side riding.
Just put one foot in front of the other...up, and down, up and down... By now our thoughts were one in the same. This all-t0-familiar process was, well, all too familiar, especially for our hill-ridden legs that had seen four long days of hill-battle. Needless to say we were ready for our rest day! After we broke out of the Charlottesville rolling-hill country, we made East for Fredericksburg, VA.
"Civil War Trails"
kinda cool to think that our route used to be old marching grounds.
This was in "Wilderness Battlefield"
Here, Les re-enacts his own end to the Civil War--"This is the end, General Lee!"
We rode right through "Orange County" VA, and this particular city was Orange, as you can see. Just thought that was neat/funny.
We pulled into Fredericksburg and called Paul and found that he was already on his way down to pick us up! So we read, played Sudoku, and the like. (For all who do not know Paul, he grew up at EV Free Fullerton with us and went to Jr. high and high school with Aaron, and continues to be a really good friend of both of us. Currently he is stationed in Odenton, MD in the service of the United States Airforce) And then he arrived...
A warm embrace.
...and another!
SRA Switz's GPS.
Paul drove us up the road to his aunt's house just south of D.C. where we were able to catch a shower and drop our bags off (we'd stay there tonight and then head up toward Odenton/Baltimore to stay at Paul's place for our rest days).
We browsed a food magazine that held hundreds of the best places to eat in the D.C. area and for some reason we ended up with Ethiopian food! Honestly, it was much better than we thought (despite our curious looks).
It is basically a really think, sticky pancake with an assortment of foods to be picked up with the pancake.
This bite was really good!
After we stuffed ourselves we cruised back to Paul's aunts for dessert and a little TV, but before we knew it we were "out" like the lights.
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4 comments:
Yum! Ethiopian food!
Seems like yesterday that I saw Aaron and Paul sitting on the curb at BJH. Now here they are hanging in DC with Les, all grown up. I hope you had a wonderful, much deserved, few days off! That food looked yummy, not as yummy as the ice cream from the tastee freeze, but yummy non the less.
Your journey is almost complete! How cool is that!! It truly is a thrill, living vicariously through you as you blog each day. Thanks! Can't wait to hear about New York and hopefully watch a video of you dipping your tires in the Atlantic.
Bless you both!
it is quite a plate.....
just by looking at the picture it makes me stomach feel weird but a bit of hungry at the same time...
or, maybe i just need breakfast
I absolutely love Ethiopian food, good stuff!
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