So I'm going down to Virginia for the Jamestown 400 celebrations. Circumstances forced me to hit Washington, D.C.'s Capital Beltway just as Friday-night rush-hour traffic is at its peak. I feared the worst. Incredibly, the traffic moved pretty well. But what should have been an hour and a half, at most, on Interstate 95 from Washington to Richmond turned into twice that -- and that's not counting leaving the freeway for 45 minutes to have dinner at McDonald's. It was as bad as it should have been between Baltimore and D.C., or between downtown D.C. and the southern edge of the Beltway. I'm still not sure what caused it. There was no accident, no construction either, and radio traffic reports were sketchy. It may have been due to a NASCAR event near Richmond. Yes, I'm aware of the irony of thousands of people going too slow because of a bunch of dumb rednecks going too fast.