Rainy and Foggy New Year’s Day in DC

We woke up to a very dense foggy and rainy day. Rather than take a walk - like we usually do - we took a drive in to town. There were several disabled cars and a roll over along the GW Parkway. The fog was everywhere. Once we drove on to Arlington Memorial Bridge the traffic thinned out to nothing and the streets were relatively empty. On the national mall there were a lot of available parking spaces. The tourist traffic was a lot less than it has been over the last two weeks. We continued to drive by all of the familiar landmarks. Everything looked a bit more mysterious. A few pedestrians and die hards were out and about. We drove by our old condo building on Capitol Hill. We do still miss the neighborhood but there are a lot of things we are happy to have left behind. It almost feels weird that we actually lived there for thirteen years. We do still love to visit. On the way home the fog was so thick we couldn’t even see across the Potomac and the bridges disappeared. It was an interesting ride to start out the new year. I’m looking forward to the sunshine.