Late Wednesday October 1st, 2008 ,after a long day of packing and working, working and packing and turning over the Reston condo , I pointed the car north and headed back to the Big Apple. Of course, owing to tradition, I first had to pick up a Grande Starbucks, listen to the idle chatter of the barrister one last time about the weather or something inane, have my Starbucks card swiped and take the walk back out to the car.

An experiment of 4 and a half years living and working in Northern Virginia was closing. The experiment was a success as I survived to make it back home to New York City. Actually Northern Virginia is quite a civilized place and I had the privilege of working at one of the top internet companies on the globe and now will do the same but out of the newly situated headquarters in Gotham.
The trip down to Northern Virginia way back in 2004 during a 4th of July holiday was done during the wee hours of the morning but with the holiday hordes creating traffic jams at midnight on the New Jersey turnpike. The return was similarly during the wee hours but during a recession, $4 gas and mostly trucks and myself with a few deer sprinkled in the Catskills area.

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