Eleanor Tatum

These jams are not only sticky they’re mysterious. For example, after sitting in a stand-still for thirty minutes it suddenly becomes unclogged. While extremely thankful, there’s no closer. Thankful that there wasn’t any bodily harm, vehicle damage, or loss of environmental necessities, just what caused us have to sit there and stare at strangers and their bumper stickers that tell us more than we needed to know about them during are brief proximity?

Directions are similar to loyalties to professional football teams. Everyone’s sure they’re right and you, the listener, would go far astray if you didn’t write down their answer in blood on your GPS owner’s manual. In competition with your borrowed but not updated GPS sitting proudly on your dash board there’s Goggle Maps, Map Quest, your destination’s answer (the hotel’s website directions) and my iPad’s standard, hybrid, and satellite versions, oh, don’t forget the taxi driver’s answer. History tells us Washington DC was designed for simplicity in street planning. When has more than one group agreed to anything in this city?

One of my favorite travel dilemmas is trying to eat right. My minimal common sense tells me I need proper nutrition. The two glasses of wine with last night’s dinner do a grape make. Ordering 4oz orange juice in the hotel’s classy restaurant was delicious until I was asked for $5.00. I’ll trust the potatoes in my ‘all that and a bag of chips’ will have to suffice as a vegetable for today.

Enough!