My trip to Washington, DC
The day after the Drive-By Truckers show, feeling numb and emotionally drained from the election results, we left Detroit (after a much needed and good breakfast in the Shinola Hotel restaurant) for Metro Airport. From Metro Airport, we flew to Washington, DC. Being consistently nervous about ever getting to the airport too late, we made it through TSA and then "set up camp" at our gate a good three hours before our plane departed. Almost everyone on our plane was watching live coverage of Kamala Harris's speech at Howard University. I initially wanted nothing to do with it, but did end up changing my mind and watching about half of it. It didn't make me feel any less depressed. From there, I watched the first half of a documentary called 26.2 to Life , about a group of San Quentin inmates who train to run a marathon, which is comprised of over 100 laps around the perimeter of the prison yard. It was just the sort of life-affirming, positive content I needed at that m...