[SkateDC] Saturday (8/1/09) Central Embassy Loop Skate Report

[George Marinkovich]

There was a nice turnout for the 2nd in the series of Saturday Embassy Loop Skates, the Central Embassy Loop last Saturday.  There were around 10 skaters, including:  Fabio, Søren, Céline, Shaun, Lesly, Tom, MyeongHee, and Jose.  And a new (to me) skater from Towson, whose name I can't come up with at the moment.

44 embassies were skated past, although I personally missed seeing about 3 of them:  Angola (2108 16th St., http://tinyurl.com/ngmsos), Liberia (5201 16th St., across from the Fitzgerald Tennis Stadium), and Honduras (3007 Tilden St.).  I can't explain how I missed Liberia since I knew where it was (since it was the site of a big party once when I was driving up 16th St, and we had to have skated within a couple feet of a big plaque
 announcing the name of the embassy).  I missed Honduras because we didn't cross Connecticut on Tilden to where the embassy was (will change the route slightly for next time).  Promise to make a special effort to see these embassies next time I do the skate.  Suriname and Mauritious were located in the same large office building at 4301 Connecticut Ave and  were the only two embassies I remember that weren't flying their flags.

It was a hilly route (but not as hilly as I had expected it to be), but at 15.8 miles it still took us about 3 hours to finish.  It was a hot and humid day, but we managed to find a CVS when it was needed.  By the way, the CVS had 20 oz. Gatorades on sale for $1, which was the same as the regular price at the Argyle Convenience Store in Mount Pleasant in the old days.

Cheers,
George