37 hours on a train!

Our final train ride on the Crescent out of New Orleans to Washington, D.C., was supposed to last 27 hours. Unfortunately, a train incident (otherwise known as a "wreck," where a freight train hit a truck and tied up our train for several hours) turned out to prevent us from arriving in D.C. until after 2:00 p.m. (scheduled for 10:30 a.m.). We had plans to visit the Air & Space Museum and the National Museum of the American Indian, but we barely had time to grab a burger and drink at the Shake Shack in Union Station before catching the Northeast Regional to take us to Norfolk. We left at 7:00 a.m. on Wednesday and arrived in Norfolk at 8:00 p.m., making 37 straight hours on a train.

Quo Vadimus