A beautiful early fall weekend in Northern Virgina , Reston to be exact. A stroll along the perimeter of Lake Anne over to the Old Towne Center for a dinner of Tappas , then Macaroni Grill and a little Big Bowl with the Parents who were visiting for a wedding in Washington, DC over the weekend.
Reston Town Center, both New and Old are about all that makes Northern Virginia enticing to me.
Guess I am too much of a New Yorker. Well, at the same time as I was taking the parents around I was also boxing up the accumulations of 4 years in Northern Virginia as I ready for a move north back to the Big Apple. The pendulum has swung decidedly to New York City for the company I work for and I become another one that takes I-95 North approximately 265 miles to the Empire State Building without looking back.
Back to the land of subways and taxis and restaurants that just start hopping at 9pm instead of making last call from the kitchen. Back to a place where the car behind you honks before the light turns green just to make sure you are awake and ready to bolt the moment it does. Back to the land where asking for a coffee doesn’t result in a conversation about life (except at Starbucks that are all the same regardless except in China since I couldn’t speak Chinese).

Looking forward to watch the skyscrapers at the original World Trade Center start rising including 1 World Trade Center which just recently got above street level on its trek to 1,776 feet high.

It’s going to be good to be back.

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