Or at least, that’s what the weather people are saying, which is unusual considering that DC gets most of its snow in the middle of February. If you consider weather phenomena to be the analogue watches of scheduling, two weeks late isn’t all that bad when you think about it.
Still…the whole point of the February vacation is to avoid the snow, to be able to sit some place warm and watch the anchors on CNN or The Weather Channel try to balance smugness against the seriousness they think is required for their jobs while they talk about how badly DC copes with snow. The whole point is to be able to sigh into your mojito or your pina colada, shake your head, and wonder if it’s time to put on more sun screen or whether or not you’re going to want the nap after lunch.
Oh, there will be pictures, of the doors of San Juan, of the beautiful Atlantic coast (somewhere around Georgia the Atlantic gets the message that oceans “should” be blue not green which makes a trip to the Caribbean a riot of hues near the short end of the wavelength spectrum), upside down root systems in one of two rain forests in America, and other random things that caught the eye all of it designed to remind me that two weeks ago at this time I was having breakfast outside in shorts and sandals and a t-shirt.
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