I just purchased Amtrak tickets to head down to DC next week for the inauguration. For the price I paid, I could have flown round-trip from Nebraska to New Jersey!  But can you really put a price on something as historic as the inauguration of Barak Obama as president?

Of course, the friend I’m going to visit and I don’t actually have tickets to the main event. I imagine we’ll stand among the huddled masses on the Mall, excited just to be kind of close to where the real action is taking place. Once we decide we’re too cold, we’ll head back to her apartment to watch the inauguration on TV, which will be recording on her DVR.

Is anybody else planning to be in DC for the inauguration?

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