Billy Goats and Busy Days

This morning it was brunch in Navy Yard and this afternoon it was hiking the Billy Goat Trail on the Potomac followed by a beer at the Old Angler's Inn. The kind of Sunday you hope for when you move to DC. The sunset was beautiful. What was amazing was how many people were out on the trail. The canal and tow path are a really interesting part of DC's history taking hikers and bikers from Georgetown all the way to Ohio. We didn't go quite that far but the hike was a fun obstacle course of rocks and other Sunday hikers. The Potomac does not rival the rivers of Oregon and Washington for the fish or water sports, but it excels at grand rapids and beautiful rock formations. And the color of the leaves on the water is nothing you can find in the west.

Not-a-Dull-Moment DC

Sailing on the Chesapeake, beer gardens in Maryland, hiking in Virginia, happy hours everywhere, German lectures, embassy parties, museums (for free). DC has so much to offer it's quite ridiculous. When I am not attending one of these events/visiting one of these locales I am holing up in my tiny G-town apartment trying to make sense of what I have just learned using Google, newspapers, TV and podcasts. Or reading or listening about it on my iPod between activities. The bus ride into work gives me 25 minutes of time to educate.

And then there is everything that I need to learn abot EPA, my program, the federal gov't, the budget process, the current election, climate change.........

But as it gets colder, my guess is it will become less enticing to go out to so many events. That wind chill. Brrrr.

Not a dull moment in DC.