DC exploration ride #2… a.k.a., "I am a complete moron."

In a nutshell: went up through N. Arlington, across Chain Bridge (yes, you are supposed to use the sidewalk, otherwise you can't get to the bike path - learned that the hard way), through Friendship Heights/Chevy Chase, into Rock Creek Park, totally missed my turn and didn't realize it until I was practically in Silver Spring, eventually found my way into NE D.C. (a complete 180 from the posh suburbia that lays a few streets west), realized if I continued my original route it would take me closer to 40 miles instead of the 30 I had planned and thus considered taking the metro home. Then it occurred to me that taking the metro requires a) money or b) my SmartTrip card, neither of which I had… so I picked my way downtown over to Georgetown, across the Key Bridge, and safely back in Arlington.

I'll have to put this in more detail later, but again I highly doubt anyone actually reads this frequently enough to care that I'm cutting out early.

As you can see below, I ended up having to double back once and then ended up north of Walter Reed, not south as I had originally intended.

Modified route: