Packed my camping gear and took off to DC for Rolling Thunder with 6 other bikers from Central Ohio 
Stoped every 100 miles for the Harley riders and to accomadate the smaller tanks
Departed around 10:00 arrived around 8:00 after a slight detour (Can't trust them GPS)
Camped at the American Legion down the street from the Marine Corp Museum in Quantico.
Good time meeting fellow veterans of all ages and services 
Did visit the Marine Corps Museum - cool place, went to the Marine Barracks in DC and watched the Marine Corps Band & the Silent Drill Team - great performance, impressive even if it was raining
Went down town DC the day before and seen the Iwo Jima Monument, the wall, the Korean monument ect - lousy place to be riding motorcycles when you don't know the area, we got sidetracked several times
Did I mention I had to sleep in my rain gear one night - the NEW tent just could not hold out the rain
Then we tried going downtown DC for the parade, followed in behind a larger group of about 100 bikes in Quantico. After manuvering over 3 lanes of highway traffic, we rounded a truck then all we could see was 100 bike brake lights comming on
Most of us got slowed down and off the highway, unfortunetly this one bike hit the back of the other bike and down he went 
Had the emergency squad check him out, took him to hospital, he turned out to be ok, some road rash & bruises then we had to get the bikes off the highway, fortunetly them Harley riders had a trailer following the group We where able to do some minor repairs to the 2 bikes and both where able to ride their bikes back to Ohio 
Of cource on the way back, my cell phone decided to jump ship some where along Highway 70
so I suspect it was 
fried 
Good trip
