It wasn’t possible to tour the U.S. without seeing our nation’s capital.  Chris had never been, and my recollection of the capital only exist as fragments of memories from a lame tour bus over a decade ago.  During the planning stage of our east coast tour, our scheduled route was NYC -> Philadelphia -> Washington.  And now, here we were. We had the fortune of staying with my friend’s brother outside of Washington in Germantown, Maryland.  From there we took the metro (which by the way was perhaps the cleanest metro I’ve ever seen in the U.S.) in and out of Washington for…