Origin: Orlando, FL
Destination: Washington, DC
Duration: 5 days, 4 nights
Total Cost: $2456.71
Photos: Not high-res because it would've taken a long time to upload. Hope you enjoy regardless!
Breakdown of expenses for 2 people:
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Plane Tickets: $480 We flew coach with American Airlines as it was the cheapest option. On the way there we did not have seats together but on the way back home we did. Not a big deal but be prepared to pay more if you select American and want seats together as their seating system is kind of wacky. The flights were direct flights.
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Lodging: $1,040 We stayed at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Washinton DC Convention Center. It was a central location near almost everything so that we could walk to most places. This particular deal had free breakfast in the morning and free drinks and snacks between 5:30PM and 7:30PM. The hotel was very nice and the bed was comfortable. Our room was quite large so it didn’t feel like we were coming into just a room and more like coming into an apartment. The room had a kitchenette but it didn’t have a hot plate; only a sink and a mini fridge.
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Transportation: $243.56 This one is a bit tricky because I debated renting a car, however, renting a car alone would have been much, much more expensive and I would have had the stress of having to worry about the car I rented, paying for parking, and paying for the gas for it. Renting a car alone, the most cost effective one I could find was $49 dollars a day and at 5 days that was already $245, then add the cost of parking, gas, insurance, etc. it would have been way more so we decided to use Lyft everywhere. It can be reduced drastically if your travelling partner is willing to walk or bike ride; mine wasn’t. I could have saved $60~ if my SO was willing to walk a bit more. I’d like to mention that the cost of transportation includes a $16.75 all-day Metro Card I used to go from McPherson Square Station in DC to Reston, VA, a Lyft ride from the Reston station to the Udvar-Hazy Museum (The other part of the Air and Space museum located in Chantilly, VA) and then the same rides back so that was a little expensive. That particular trip individually for those interested is broken down below:
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Sub-trip to Chantilly, VA for Udvar-Hazy Museum: $54.05
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City Bike to McPherson Sq. Station - Free
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Metro to Whiele-Reston East - $16.75 - I bought an all-day pass because I didn’t have time to cost
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These initial shockwaves can be clearly seen on the seismogram, they are more than 20 times the amplitude of the ensuing collapse. To put that into perspective, a 10 fold increase in amplitude represents a 100 fold increase in energy. These spikes represent truly massive shockwaves similar to the those caused by the detonation of 80,000 lbs of ammonium nitrate during quarry blasting which can register up to a magnitude 2 earthquake. To further put that into perspective you can also see on this seismic record how tiny by comparison the aircraft impacts were.
Whatever caused these shockwaves clearly had nothing to do with any progressive collapse due to weakened steel, these were massive, almost identical detonations that initiated both of the collapses.
Edit: For those who are interested in the technical interpretation of this seismogram, if you look carefully you can see just before the large shock wave I discussed, there is a smaller wave that can be seen to be increasing just before the large wave initiates. That small wave is called the P wave. It appears first on the seismogram not because it originated first, but because it travels faster through the earth. The main big wave is called the S wave. It arrives after the P wave because it travels more slowly. That happens because they are of different frequencies that the seismograph records.
This is important because if you don't know that, you may believe the seismogram shows the massive shockwave happened after the collapse had begun. It didn't, that massive shockwave and the preceeding P wave originated simultaniously.
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