![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Homeless in DC
Jan. 20th, 2005 06:59 pmSometimes a newsflash immediately reminds me of a story I wrote. Luckily this one was in English (most travel stories on my hard drive are in Dutch), so why not republish?
The story:
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=qw1106155981494B212
My story:
Sunday afternoon in Washington D.C.
On my way from Vienna, VA to Columbia MD, I have to go through Washington DC, capital of the modern world. I had spent a handful of days there a few years before, yet I still took the subway early, which allowed me to spend a couple of hours during the afternoon in a city that has fascinated me for a while now.
I didn’t bring a map, but I thought I'd recognize things from five years ago. Back above the ground this seemed a bit more complicated than I had anticipated. Yet, soon I find myself on the edge of the Mall. Everywhere else in this country the Mall is a place where people do their shopping, only in DC it is an area, near the White House, where you can find most attractions of the city.
( Read more... )
The story:
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=qw1106155981494B212
My story:
Sunday afternoon in Washington D.C.
On my way from Vienna, VA to Columbia MD, I have to go through Washington DC, capital of the modern world. I had spent a handful of days there a few years before, yet I still took the subway early, which allowed me to spend a couple of hours during the afternoon in a city that has fascinated me for a while now.
I didn’t bring a map, but I thought I'd recognize things from five years ago. Back above the ground this seemed a bit more complicated than I had anticipated. Yet, soon I find myself on the edge of the Mall. Everywhere else in this country the Mall is a place where people do their shopping, only in DC it is an area, near the White House, where you can find most attractions of the city.
( Read more... )
