My wife showed me an article about a guy in Cheverly who rows his way to work on the Anacostia. http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/wayoflife/07/30/rowing.commuter.ap/
Its a great idea to forget about the traffic that bothers us all, and use a more natural route that is surely better for your health and your mind. Living near the Northeast Branch trail, I see a lot of bikers in the morning who I assume are commuters. However, I've never heard of anybody else using the river as a way to get into the city.
This idea seems very appealing to me, because I love the outdoors and work fairly close to the river down in DC. It would be great if the Northeast Branch near my house was deep enough for rowing. Its disappointing that the river is too shallow at this point for any recreation. However, the Bladensburg Waterfront Park is a fairly easy bike or walk from Riverdale. The difficutly though would be the amount of time it would take to commit to this. An hour and a half like this guy describes certainly is a lot to commit, when my commute into DC can be done in 20 to 25 minutes on most days. Who knows...maybe one day I'll find a canoe or kayak and try it out. For now though the traditional commute will have to do.
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Saturday, July 14, 2007
New Local Tourist Attraction
My wife's desire to bake led me to the 7-11 on Kenilworth Avenue in Bladensburg recently. I had heard about the promotional change to make this location look like a Kwik-E-Mart from the Simpsons. When I got there it seemed to be working well for the 7-11 atleast.
My first sight when I drove into the parking lot was somebody who was probably a local, taking a picture of a father and son sporting the uniform of the tourist, "I love DC" T-shirts. They made sure they were smiling as they cozied up to Marge and her bag of groceries. Now maybe they were in the area for other reasons, but it seemed to me like they had made a detour from the usual DC attractions to see the Kwik-E-Mart. It was funny to me that an ordinary 7-11 in a not very touristy part of the the DC area was drawing in people just to see the sight.
Inside there was a busier than normal line. While there appeared to be the local blue collar workers picking up coffee, doughnuts, and the other essentials for the work day, there were also several people who only had the promotional items such as Buzz Cola or Krusty-O's. It seems the draw of the Kwik-E-Mart is great. I would have taken pictures of the store to share, but I wouldn't want to look like a tourist or a crazy Simpson's fanatic.
My first sight when I drove into the parking lot was somebody who was probably a local, taking a picture of a father and son sporting the uniform of the tourist, "I love DC" T-shirts. They made sure they were smiling as they cozied up to Marge and her bag of groceries. Now maybe they were in the area for other reasons, but it seemed to me like they had made a detour from the usual DC attractions to see the Kwik-E-Mart. It was funny to me that an ordinary 7-11 in a not very touristy part of the the DC area was drawing in people just to see the sight.
Inside there was a busier than normal line. While there appeared to be the local blue collar workers picking up coffee, doughnuts, and the other essentials for the work day, there were also several people who only had the promotional items such as Buzz Cola or Krusty-O's. It seems the draw of the Kwik-E-Mart is great. I would have taken pictures of the store to share, but I wouldn't want to look like a tourist or a crazy Simpson's fanatic.
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