Can't find a ride to Washington for Jan. 20? Book a boat

[babylonsister]

Can't find a ride to Washington for Jan. 20? Book a boat

By William Douglas | McClatchy Newspapers


WASHINGTON — Unable to find affordable transportation to and lodging in the nation's capital for President-elect Barack Obama's Jan. 20 inauguration, one group of Obama supporters came up with a unique way to get travel and stay in style: a ship.

Calling it the "Yes We Can 2009 Inauguration Cruise," the group has rented a 500-room cruise ship and plans to charge $1,000 a person to sail from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to Baltimore, then take charter buses to Washington for the inaugural festivities.

"I had been volunteering for Senator Obama since Iowa, so there was no doubt in my mind that I would be there on Inauguration Day," said Karen M. Phillips, an Obama campaign volunteer who helped organize the cruise. "No, looking at it on television would not be good enough. It became a personal mission of mine to put something together that was economically reasonable and entertaining."

The cruise highlights the crunch on transportation and housing for the event, with airline and bus seats filling up as fast as the limited number of hotel rooms in the Washington area.

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[firedupdem]

1. Wow! I wish I could go! Shows you the lengths people will go to

so they can be a part of this. I'm so happy to see my boys beaming with pride about Obama and they have never been interested in politics...along with their mother! LOL

[babylonsister]

2. Sounds like great fun to me! nt