7:30a: to get the "true" feel for a city you really need to see it in it's prime, when the streets are awake. It is 7:30a here in DC on a Saturday and the streets are very much asleep! and I love it. No horns, no sirens, no bits of cell phone conversations, when you take out all the distractions this city is magnificent. I have been enjoying my 6 or 7:30s for 5 years this coming May and have no plans of leaving but I stumbled upon this:

and I couldn't help but think, "preposterous, a perfectly good passport without a single stamp! Inconceivable." I think I need to rectify this inconsistency soon.