And home again
Day 9 (2022-06-11) 11 miles, 150 feet (2096)

After a late night watching the finals, I woke up at 4:30 am to make our train back to DC (the others were taking the train all the way back to Philly to get their cars). The train to DC was 4.5 hours, w/ me trapped in a car w/ a baptist choir going to DC for the day. This was alternatingly cool, hilarious, and annoying, but at least not boring. (Edit: I wore a mask the whole time, but nonetheless caught the first cold I'd had in more than two years. Could have been worse.)

From Union Station I needed to bike 9 miles home on the metropolitan branch trail (MBT). A few miles up I found that a new section had been added to connect with Fort Totten metro. I had to hop on the trail as it was beautiful, and vaguely in the right direction. All was good until arriving at the metro, where you are dumped out on sketchy city streets. Google bike routes got me home, but routed me on a "path" that started as nice single-track and ended as a barely visible indentation in the grass. Adventure!