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Walking in a Winter Wonderland
Jan. 13th, 2019 11:47 amSaturday evening, as is my wont, I went to Alexandria to do some work at the Patent Office, and then go to Whole Foods to do some shopping and eat dinner, and then back to the Patent Office. It was snowing, and the Pentagon City Metro station was closed, although not because of the snow; they were conducting some repairs and improvements. This meant that Metro was running shuttle buses, so I took a bus from Pentagon City to Braddock Road, and then a train one stop from Braddock Road to King Street.
Coming back, I took a train two stops from King Street to National Airport, and then a shuttle bus to Pentagon City; it was around midnight when I arrived. Normally there would be cabs by the Metro stop, or at least a cab would be likely to come by soon, but with the weather and the trains not serving Pentagon City, there weren’t any cabs. I entered the Ritz-Carlton, planning to ask someone just what the address was (it’s 1250 South Hayes, if you want to know), and pull my cellphone out from a pocket in my backpack to call a cab. The hotel employees graciously called a cab for me, saying that the cab would come faster that way.
After waiting for twenty minutes in the cold outside the Ritz-Carlton, while holding a bag of groceries, I went inside, and the gentleman at the front desk called again, and said that a cab might be there in fifteen minutes; there was evidently extra demand because of the weather. I told him to cancel the request, and started walking home, carrying my bag of groceries. It was after 1:00 PM when I arrived. I did get some healthful exercise, and there was beauty in the snow, but I wish I had started walking twenty minutes earlier.
Coming back, I took a train two stops from King Street to National Airport, and then a shuttle bus to Pentagon City; it was around midnight when I arrived. Normally there would be cabs by the Metro stop, or at least a cab would be likely to come by soon, but with the weather and the trains not serving Pentagon City, there weren’t any cabs. I entered the Ritz-Carlton, planning to ask someone just what the address was (it’s 1250 South Hayes, if you want to know), and pull my cellphone out from a pocket in my backpack to call a cab. The hotel employees graciously called a cab for me, saying that the cab would come faster that way.
After waiting for twenty minutes in the cold outside the Ritz-Carlton, while holding a bag of groceries, I went inside, and the gentleman at the front desk called again, and said that a cab might be there in fifteen minutes; there was evidently extra demand because of the weather. I told him to cancel the request, and started walking home, carrying my bag of groceries. It was after 1:00 PM when I arrived. I did get some healthful exercise, and there was beauty in the snow, but I wish I had started walking twenty minutes earlier.
