Photo by matt Stern.

Good morning, Washington and happy Memorial Day weekend. This holiday weekend looks to be full of America – Rolling Thunder motorcycles, barbecues, baseball, beaches, and …Sarah Palin? And of course, our patently hot D.C. summer days as we unofficially enter the summer season.

>> If you are heading out of the city (or already have), it looks like good news if you are driving. While gas prices are still high, they are falling from their average of $4.16 in D.C. just last week. The price of regular gas in D.C. is down to $4.08, and in the Washington area as a whole gas is at $4.01. Outside of D.C. the Maryland average is the lowest at $3.93, with Virginia at $3.99. It still hurts to see that last year the D.C. area’s average gas price was $2.82. Ouch.

>> And if you were worried you would hit traffic on top of construction work when heading out of the city, don’t fear: you’ll only hit the traffic. The D.C. area highway departments have suspended most road work to help vacation goers get where they’re going.

>> Beyond the four Blue and Orange line stations closed this holiday weekend, Metro is doing track work on the Red line this weekend. Trains are sharing a track between Friendship Heights and Grosvenor-Strathmore and between Judiciary Square and Takoma.