A Ride In to Town

Our road trips these days are driving in to DC to visit the old neighborhood and back. It’s only nine miles away so it’s a relatively safe distance. We haven’t done one for a while so we ventured out last week to put a few miles on the car. We can’t remember when we last filled the gas tank. The city was still pretty much shut down, although the traffic on the GW Parkway was much heavier. The skies were blue and the clouds were dancing - giving off a very different vibe than what most people must be feeling inside their heads these days. The streets were empty, there were a few people mulling about, but most of the activity was construction on the roads and the some of the museums. We stayed away from the White House area and spent most of the drive around Capitol Hill where we lived for thirteen years. We are glad we moved to northern Virginia last year but there will always be things we miss about the old neighborhood. A lot of that is in our minds rather than reality. Every time we visit, things just don’t look the same. But then again, things never really are the way you remember them.