Saturday, April 10, 2021

Road Trip Week: Arrival In Washington DC

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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