After Johns Hopkins, we headed towards Washington DC.
Leah was staying with a friend for the week in DC while we looked at Campuses with the elder child. So we got an AirBNB in their Tenlytown neighborhood which was very nice. It is a very SWPL place, Whole Foods in walking distance, along with a smoothie place, and a great Mediterranean quick service restaurant.
In DC, they have masks on everywhere even outside with the only exception being for vigorous physical exercise under their mayor's edict - which is why quite a few people were out jogging or walking their dogs, everyone else had masks on.
They've got quite a bit of Stockholm Syndrome going on in Tenlytown:
Lots of these signs festooned the neighborhood.
They were joined with the "Please Don't Break Our Windows" a/k/a BLM signs, and various other forms of virtue signalling.
Very tolerant stuff indeed, but as told to me by a friend that lives there in the neighborhood, the tolerance only goes so far - don't have any Republican bumper stickers in sight on your car as the oh-so-caring progressives in the neighborhood will key it.
We have no stickers on our cars for that reason among others, but our having a Michigan license plate apparently ticked someone off, as our windshield was cheesed during the night. Yes someone threw a couple pieces of Swiss cheese on the front windshield which was rather disgusting, not to mention a waste of Swiss cheese. We cleaned that off and then headed out to check on the cherry blossoms.
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