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Thoughts on Travel – Fastest Time versus Most Direct

What is your goal in driving – to get to your destination quickly? To enjoy the drive or just get it over with? Does it depend on what the end of the drive results in or where you are going and when? When I lived in the Washington, DC metro area, I found that there was little difference between travelling what the GPS termed “Fastest Route” and “Most Direct”. Traffic was horrible on Interstate 495 (the Beltway) most times of the day, and my goal was to avoid it as much as possible. I would routinely tack on an extra half hour for any travel over 10 miles just to make sure I would not be late. For example, in the 1990’s I lived in Annandale, Virginia and worked in Brookmont, Maryland. If I left the house at or before 5:15 am, I would arrive at work in 35 to 40 minutes taking the beltway. That was a 17 mile arc route from 8 to 10 on a clock dial face, and would be considered the fastest route. If I left closer to 5:30 am, in that short 15-minute delay, the traffic would build up...
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Extraction from a Cell Phone Game

Two years ago, Thanksgiving 2015, my brother introduced my husband and me to a cell phone game called Ingress. He billed it as a great way to learn about landmarks and art around your location. Since he lived in Williamsburg, VA, we quickly discovered that we could easily locate plenty of portals to destroy the enemy and capture with our own resonators, and gained a couple of levels before the week was out. Once we were home in Northern Virginia, we discovered local portals and where the general lines of the Enlightened and the Resistance were. It became a competition between us to see who could level up first. My time as an artist in Occoquan helped me to gain more points and medals than my husband. After all, historic towns had the best places to “hack”. The pros of this game: ·        Something my husband and I could do together. ·        Exercise – getting us out and walking. ·      ...
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