A couple weeks ago K. and I were on vacation, and we headed down to Washington DC, my old home. Originally we had been thinking of going to Costa Rica, maybe Bogota, but then I thought of how many good friends we have in DC, and what nice guest rooms they have. So I thought I’d treat my gal to something a little more… free. She loves free. Right, sweetie? Sweetie?
Within the first couple of days, we had hit a good range of my favorite places, and Katie was tiring of hearing me say thing like, “This is the spot where I used to catch the bus in October ‘94,” and “Well I’ll be! That building wasn’t there before!” For my part, revisiting my old haunts was pleasantly nostalgic, but I was getting a little worn down by how it also reminded me of how long it had been since I first moved to DC, and how long since I left, and of how much things had changed, and of how even if I live to be a hundred, I’m still the better part of four fifths of halfway into the grave.
It was time for something new‚ and a little environmental degradation is always a pick-me-up. Pollution tourism in Our Nation’s Capitol! (more…)