Day 22: Georgetown and Iwo Jama memorial

Today was going to the day we arrive at the capital of USA-Washington. As we had made a good progress yesterday, it was only a couple of hours drive to Washington and before long we reached outskirts of Washington where at this point, our sat navigation went crazy and started to give us random directions. This is due to the fact we are travelling into roadworks. It was a chaos with loads of new roads and roadworks being done on current roads springing up all over the place.

The sat navigation must have not been updated to reflect the new roads and it was that chaotic that it sent normally laid back Stuart crazy and he was close to losing his temper which was quite a sight!

We eventually escape the traffic and arrived at our RV park campsite. Half of the group decided to go to Georgetown while the other half wanted to stay behind and chill so half of us caught a bus to our local metro. It was easy enough to navigate the transport system unlike Miami and we arrived at our destination quickly enough and walked the rest of the way.

Georgetown is a quaint little suburb filled with shops who are trapped in a time bubble. The closest thing to it in England would be York. We all enjoyed some browsing with a dinner at a Mexican takeway where they had burritos size of a baby! Sara then wanted to try out a cupcake however they got a massive queue with a local policeman marshalling the queue! Sara and I had to queue for twenty minutes to eventually purchase cupcakes!

Soon as we came out, it started to rain so we all huddled under a shop until it subsided so we all started our walk to Iwo Jama memorial but soon as we started to cross a bridge, the rain started again but it was warm so we pressed on then it started to get windy and we saw some lighting dancing all over the sky. It was a beautiful sight to see purplish sky punctured by occasional flash of lighting.

We then arrived at Iwo Jama memorial. Before seeing it, I had low expectations of it as I thought it would just be a iconic monument and nothing more than that but it was much bigger than I thought it would be and it looked really incredible because it was illuminated as it is dark. It gave off a ghostly effect and it captured perfectly the titan struggle of American soliders and the sheer relief when they was able to hoist the flag. It was enough to make hairs on back of my neck to stand up.