riding the rails

When planning for this DC trip a few weeks ago, I remembered that there's a Six Flags here and I discovered that it was pretty easy to get to by Metro. Even though I grew up an hour away from DC, and was always a bit of a theme park nut (more on that someday), Six Flags America has just never been on my radar. It didn't exist when I was a kid - and most of my trips home are around Christmas holidays, so I'm not even used to thinking of this area as being warm and doing things outside here. I just got a season pass to LA's Six Flags (more on that later, too), so I decided to make a trip of this one. Six Flags here is drastically different than its sister park in LA. This is a small compact park that isn't particularly well kept by any means, and the theming is barely existent (though thats true for most Six Flags parks since they started giving everything superhero names). But it has some decent rides sprinkled in among a lot of average ones, and to me, even an average rollercoaster is more fun than no rollercoaster! I took the Metro to the end of the Blue Line and the grabbed an Uber for the final distance from there. True to form, I got there hours later than I had hoped, but crowds were small and lines were short, so it was easy to ride pretty much everything - even after losing a chunk of time to dropping the house key to my airbnb off a bridge after the first ride. (Don't ask; yeah, that was fun.) Luckily, I managed to get the key back right after the park closed, and I metro'ed back into town for an Oyster Po' Boy (that isn't actually a po' boy) at one of my favorites spots here and then it was back to work on a project for the rest of the night. Today I move into family mode - stay tuned…