Traveling to the show

So, I thought I had a brilliant idea to stay at Georgeann's house this weekend when traveling back and forth to the Richmond shows. She is only about 1 1/2 from the show and that is certainly doable. Well, if you have never traveled around DC, try to avoid it. We left Saturday morning and was in stop and go traffic for the entire trip down. It took us over 2 1/2 hours to get there. Where was everyone going? I guess the beach. Another exhibitor was 15 miles behind us, calling every 20 minutes or so asking, "has the traffic let up yet"?. Anyway, we thought that Sunday would be better and it was. We zoomed down to Richmond. The problem was that on the way back we once again sat in traffic. What the heck? It seemed we were stuck in the coming home beach traffic. The only problem with the weekend, was we sat in beach traffic both days and never saw the beach.