So far DC has been great. The weather has made for a really nice fall. I’ve spent the last few weekends exploring the city and region. Above is a photo from the Potomac River. We went kayaking and explored Theodore Roosevelt Island and the banks of Georgetown. Georgetown is about as far opposite than China as I think anything can get. Everyone is preppy and things are really extravagant and expensive.
I’ve also checked out an area just east of Capital Hill called Eastern Market.There is a little farmers market place there and some stores and stuff. Nothing that exciting but still worth a look around. It’s a short walk to the backside of the Library of Congress.
Clear days make for great sunsets.
Last month we went for a hike:
Shenandoah National Park is about an hour and a half away. We hiked up to the top of a mountain and looked around.
I got to drive around Virginia and got to see true election battleground country, like this nice church here.
I say Potomac Fever because I’m living inside the “beltway,” the Washington Beltway. The best satire of this place is that everything is different inside the beltway. We are the center of the world, smarter than everyone else and are elite. That’s the basic mentality. I’m trying not to get sucked up in this. People in Washington, it’s said, don’t understand the rest of the country.
