{"id":23030,"date":"2014-01-05T10:25:36","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T15:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/?p=23030"},"modified":"2014-01-05T10:25:36","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T15:25:36","slug":"metro_nomads-valiant-effort-to-visit-every-metro-station-falls-five-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yurasko.net\/wfy\/2014\/01\/metro_nomads-valiant-effort-to-visit-every-metro-station-falls-five-short\/","title":{"rendered":"@Metro_Nomad&#8217;s valiant effort to visit every Metro station falls five short"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a title=\"Looking out of a Metro rear car by wfyurasko, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wfyurasko\/6449408925\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7171\/6449408925_21061e2e17.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"Looking out of a Metro rear car\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\"><\/a><br>On Saturday, <strong>Steve Ander<\/strong> @Metro_Nomad , a Northern Virginia resident, set out to visit every station on the Metro system, defined as such:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The carefully crafted itinerary will keep him riding until he has stopped &#8212; and exited for a photo &#8212; at each of the 86 stations in the system.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/liveblog.wtop.com\/Event\/Metro_Nomad\">WTOP live-blogged<\/a>, from which the quote above came from, the whole journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Metro_Nomad was unsuccessful by a mere five stations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">in the end- all red&amp;yw lines, nw dc, all va, SW dc, all trnsfr pts, all but 5 orange&amp;blue, green was toughest <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/r6mlFRzy8Z\">pic.twitter.com\/r6mlFRzy8Z<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014 Metro Nomad (@Metro_nomad) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Metro_nomad\/statuses\/419734160165859328\">January 5, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s quite a journey nonetheless. 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