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Road Trip 2015 Philadelphia to Washington DC


Tomorrow on to Washington D.C.


Leaving Philadelphia, we went past Lincoln  Financial Stadium home field of the Philadelphia Eagles.  Shirley texted the boys a picture of the Stadium.  As no one in our family is an Eagles fan, she got back many humorous replies including "Who are the Eagles" LOL.


Interstate 95 is the major artery along the east coast.  Heading for Washington D. C., we got to travel through 23 miles of Delaware.  Glad for the signs telling us when we entered a new state as the scenery didn't change much.


Sorry about the out of focus picture.  We weren't fast enough to take a picture; so I lifted this one from the internet taken where we entered Delaware.  The words at the bottom say "The First State."


Continuing down I 95 into Maryland and Baltimore.


Crossing the Susquehanna River in Maryland


Interstate 95 through Maryland is also called the Purple Heart Trail.


Entering the Fort McHenry Tunnel going under the Patapsco River and into Baltimore.

We decided to take the I 495 (Washington Beltway) around D.C., rather than try to deal with the traffic going through the center of the City, on our way to our hotel in Arlington Virginia.


We checked into our hotel in Arlington and took our luggage up to our room.  Did we get a surprise!!!  The room we had reserved was to have a single king size bed.  What we saw upon entering our room was a foyer, a hall leading to two bedrooms and two bathrooms, another short hall lead to the living room, dining area and a full kitchen.  We went back to the front desk and asked the Clerk if there was some mistake?  He informed us there was no mistake. The suite (Shirley called it our condo) was compliments of the hotel because we were staying two nights.  Thank you Clarion Collection Hotel Arlington Court Suites. After the dump we stayed in last night in Philadelphia, this was a welcome surprise; a five star room at a two star price!!!


Foyer


Turing to the right in the foyer is the hall to the bedrooms (two doorways on the left); the closet and first bathroom (two doorways on the right) and the main bathroom at the end of the hall.


Bathroom at end of hall.


Vanity and sink in the bathroom.  The other bathroom is just plain compared to this one.
 



Even though we had two bedrooms and two bathrooms, we only used one of each.  Guess which ones.


Living area


Dining area


Kitchen

We arrived in Arlington early in the afternoon.  Having time to do some sightseeing, we went to Arlington National Cemetery, as it was very close to our hotel.

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