City Speculations

City Ranks so far:

D.C.

Raleigh

Baltimore

Philadelphia

D.C. was fantastic. Segways are the bomb. Their metro is incredibly fantastically easy to use. I think Timmy disagrees on this fact, but I always thought that the "T" in Boston is insanely confusing. The D.C. metro took half a second to use and was both clean and well put together!

All that being said, I can't help but continue to rant on how the city is not for me! It is such a sullen place! The very "code of the metro" embodies the feel of the city for me. The "code of the metro" being that nobody is to look at anyone else or smile. Pick your spot on the floor, a newspaper, out the window, and then get off. I was given many a stern eye since I am a far too avid people watcher. My roving eyes were given a stern lashing and that city feeling was strong. We had a lengthy enjoyable, albeit troubling discussion tonight at our friend Kim's house about the city. The words that came to my head when we were actually IN the city that describe my feelings and relate to the arc of our conversation were, "this is what class warfare looks like." The haves and the have nots are in close proximity and are thrown into stark contrast in the city. The tension was very real to me and the anger latent. Since this is an epic topic of discussion I'm just going to stop before I really start. Those thoughts accompanied me on the long drive all the way to Raleigh though.

Staying in Baltimore with the sis was outrageously wonderful. Her presence, ever a calming one in my life, provided this beneficence again for me. And I think it was difficult for all of us to leave behind little Lucy!

We continue on to what has already been our third pampered stop in a row. "Roughing it" is the opposite of what we are doing. Hahaha. Prepared beds. Booze in hand right through the door. Etc and so forth.

More on Raleigh and "the South" as we experience it.

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