Living in Washington, DC, is not like living in Beijing, China. There are a million differences (and a few similarities to be covered another time, not least the traffic). Perhaps the most telling for me is the difference in hiking.
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Remember when you were a kid and someone taught you to count the seconds between the lightning flash and the thunderclap to work out how far away the storm was?
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Sometimes you want to be way off the beaten track. Miles from civilization. Not another human in sight. Like in March 2020, with Covid-19. Well, if you live in a big city and don’t own a car, you’re pretty much down to reminiscence.
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The Grand Canyon. As the guidebook said, “Heard of it? Still here, still frikkin big”. And, it should have added, still frikkin amazing.
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