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This past weekend I ventured into the heart of Snowmageddon<\/a> for the Capitals – Penguins<\/a> game on Sunday morning. This trip was planned this past spring with no intenion of there being anything near 2 feet of snow on the ground. Early in the week we started to get word that the weather was going to be bad and then like clockwork my Saturday morning flight was canceled on Wednesday afternoon. \u00a0I looked into a couple different options, Train from Chicago to DC which sold out and earlier flights were already booked or canceled. \u00a0I ended up booking a train from Penn Station<\/a> in New York to Washington on Saturday morning (6:45am). \u00a0Then I got a flight to New York for Friday night. \u00a0I got in around 10pm and proceeded with the following schedule:<\/p>\n

10pm – Blondies<\/a>
\nMidnight – McAleer’s Pub<\/a> (ie the Krull bar)
\n1am – The Dead Poet<\/a>
\n3am – The Dublin House<\/a>
\n4am – The Green Kitchen<\/a>
\n5am – Back to Jim’s Apartment to Shower
\n6am – Penn Station
\n7am – The Northeast Regional<\/a> heading to Washington
\n11:30am – Union Station<\/a><\/p>\n

To say the above was challenging is the understatement of the decade but this was just the beginning of a Epic Journey. Once we got into Washington Jim and I made our way to the Metro system and took the train out to Depont Circle<\/a> where we came upon this seen:<\/p>\n

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The Escalator of Doom was not running and was covered in snow. \u00a0To say this was a large escalator is an understatement. \u00a0This has to be at least one of the largest and steepest escalators in the Western hemisphere. \u00a0It’s 188\u00a0feet of pure burning pain but who’s counting. Needless to say it took every once of will power and agility to summit. Once we got to the top we were greeted with our first taste of Snowmageddon. \u00a0From this point we began our march to the hotel down the middle of the snow covered streets.<\/p>\n

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As fate would have we actually had a relatively easy journey into the city. Meanwhile after a failed attempt to get their truck out Josh and Tom began their journey from Alexandria, VA to Washington on foot. \u00a0On the Road:<\/p>\n

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All told I’m think they walked over 6 miles and there were only minor incidents of cannibalism. \u00a0I think when Jim and I made it in to Washington the ball was clearly in their court. \u00a0Would I have walked 6 miles in two feet of snow on the open road to see the Caps – Pens game? \u00a0There \u00a0is no way to ever know but they did.<\/p>\n