Publius & Co.

Early morning stroll into work...

I normally walk from the Dupont Circle Metro station to work. My customer provides a shuttle bus, but unless I'm running late or the weather is crappy, I walk. It's six or seven blocks, takes between ten and fifteen minutes to get in, and is a very enjoyable little stroll. Not today, tho.

Oh, don't get me wrong--it was still enjoyable. It just wasn't little.

There was a fire in the Metro system this morning, between the Woodley Park-National Zoo stop, and Dupont Circle. I normally arrive at Dupont Circle at about 7:30; this morning, I walked by it at 9:15. I walked to work from three Metro stops away (Van Ness-UDC); according to mapsonus.com, I covered over three miles in about 90 minutes.

In all honesty, I would've made it to work in about 75 minutes if I hadn't been having such a good time. Really.

See, I feel any distance is walking distance if you have enough time, and I'm sorry I can't credit the original writer of that line.

It's true, you know. The gf actually suggested it; otherwise, I was going to wait for shuttle Metrobusses that probably didn't arrive (I wasn't passed by any on my little hike). It made sense.

A few blocks south of Van Ness-UDC (where they dumped us out of the train), I saw an apartment building with some very interesting concrete-molding, and I thought, "I should get a picture of that sometime." I walked a few steps, then remembered I had my camera in my briefcase, and sometime became now. I started snapping pictures of whatever I found interesting, once I was reminded of how beautiful a city Washington actually is.

I walked into a 7-11 at Connecticut and Porter, and got myself a huge coffee, and continued my walk, taking pictures of all kinds of different things. It's a shame I can't download pix at work, but look in this space tonight. I should have some posted then, including firemen for Susie, if they came out.

Posted by Victor at Marzo 18, 2004 12:24 PM