Stinks

[mjarrels]

Took a trip Sunday with my family, visited a large city... Closed my eyes, took a wiff and said to my wife, where are we. Manila Philippines. Nope, we are at the fence in front of the white house. Spent all day Sunday around the National Mall in Washington DC and I thought I was in a third world country. Stagent air, hot, sewer smell, shady venders. I was shocked with our Nations Captial.

mark

 

[Big Bri]

well we are turning our country that way, immigration, mosque at ground zero, importing everything from over seas, spanish printed on half the products we buy and on billboards and tv commercials, and many more. . . what do you expect. This isn't the America we all once remembered.

 

[MossRoad]

Took a trip Sunday with my family, visited a large city... Closed my eyes, took a wiff and said to my wife, where are we. Manila Philippines. Nope, we are at the fence in front of the white house. Spent all day Sunday around the National Mall in Washington DC and I thought I was in a third world country. Stagent air, hot, sewer smell, shady venders. I was shocked with our Nations Captial.

mark

Hmmm... we were there two years ago and had a great trip. The subways were cheap, clean and efficient. The monuments and mall area were clean. The street food vendors were cheap, clean and tasty. We were really impressed with it back then. And it was in the high 90's both days we were there, so plenty hot. If there was garbage it would have rotted. Sorry you had a bad trip.

 

[czechsonofagun]

Must be the summer season, I work in Arlington with a trip to DC every so often and generally it is a clean area.

Even visitors from Prague find DC to be a clean town, unlike NY.

But I usually don't go to the Mall or near White House.

 

[MossRoad]

Sorry folks, no politics. :thumbsup:

 

[Heywood Jannockitov]

Could be worse, you could be in Moscow right now.

 

[Alan L.]

I was hoping to go back someday, haven't been in about 20 years, but while I disagree with most of the politics going on in that town at least back then it was a super impressive place to visit, lots of history.

 

[Jim Thompson]

These are very awful things.
The stinking and the politics(!)

And strikingly similar!:laughing:

Jim

 

[2manyrocks]

Isn't DC built in a swamp anyway?

Been several years since I've been there, but the traffic had gotten to the point that I don't see why anybody would go there voluntarily.

 

[sweettractors]

Isn't DC built in a swamp anyway?

Been several years since I've been there, but the traffic had gotten to the point that I don't see why anybody would go there voluntarily.

I thought it must be in a swamp, because, someone mentioned something about draining a swamp there. Ken Sweet