I made my worst tourist mistake in decades yesterday: I drove to see the cherry blossoms.
I was checking Google Maps and it said that to drive from Arlington to Parking Lot A near the Jefferson Memorial would be just 30 minutes. Sure, sounds good. Wrong. Ohio Drive SW was a parking lot. It took me 90 minutes to get from the Lincoln Memorial to the Jefferson Memorial. Ohio was one way so you had to sit in terrible traffic to make the entire loop back around to 395.
The cherry blossoms were pretty, though.
