I drove about 10 hours until I got to a random town called Charlottesville in Virginia and spent the night there. The next day I drove into Washington D.C. which was crazy! I have never been in traffic that bad before, imagine a 6 lane interstate completely stopped for miles! but after too much driving in traffic and even more driving around trying to find parking I eventually got a chance to see some stuff. Luckily almost everything there is to see in Washington is relatively close so I just walked from one thing to the next, first i walked to the Washington monument which was way bigger than I remember, then about two hundred yards from that is the WWII memorial, next I saw the Lincoln memorial. That would have been cooler if there weren't like a thousand people inside of it. I did get to meet this really cool homeless guy named James though, he enjoyed awkwardly long handshakes and did not enjoy pb&j sandwiches. After that I saw the Korean war memorial then the Vietnam memorial. All of this was really cool and I new the White house was somewhere near that so I started walking.... about an hour and a half later I found it! and there were angry protesters outside and everything! I didn't really know what they were protesting but they were supposedly on a hunger strike but I saw one guy handing out food to everyone! After that I went to the Smithsonian and checked out some of the things there and then the capital. I got back to my car just in time to hit all of the traffic which was worse than it was that morning but all in all I'm glad i decided to go to washington. I eventually made it to a town called York in Pennsylvania and stayed there for the night.
The next day I found out that Gettysburg was only like thirty mile from there so I went and checked that out. It was pretty cool I really liked that whole town, but I didn't really like Pennsylvania other than that, there were way too many "Adult Superstores" all over the place. That day I drove almost all the way to Canada, and almost ended up in Canada.... twice.... I had to illegally park, but I found the Niagara falls! it was AMAZING! but I couldn't really get a good view of the big part of the falls, even when I hopped a fence and went out on an overlook thing that you are supposed to pay for. I left kind of disappointed that I didn't get a good view of it.
The next morning I was determined to see the falls from a better place. It was already a good morning because I found a legal place to park and wandered around till I ended up talking to one of the rangers for a while and ended up on a boat headed straight for the falls, poncho and all! It was one of the coolest experiences of my life it was like being in a hurricane and all around you is just gigantic masses of water falling... obviously... the rest of the day was pretty much just driving but I stayed at a KOA campsite where unfortunately a storm carried my tent away.
Yesterday I went to the Rock and Roll hall of fame which was really cool. I'm glad I went but it was a little smaller than I expected it to be. Then for the rest of the day I just drove, I went through Chicago and made it to a place called Janesville in Wisconsin which is where I am right now. Today I am going to drive toward Mt. Rushmore! wish me luck!
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