Third district, where's my car?

Today seems like an appropriate day to write my first official DC blog post. I had quite a "welcome to the third district" moment this morning when I went to retreive something from my car and it was gone. Stolen, you think? Oh no, just towed to a different street because of the neighborhood block party.

Now, I fully support the idea of a neighborhood block party. If I hadn't had plans to get out of the city and go hiking I would likely have attended the block party. My problem is not with my car being towed, but the fact that a simple, "hey, could you move your car?" might have been a more neighborly way to handle the situation. Especially since I walked to my car Saturday morning, greeted several neighbors, and no one said anything. Ah well, looking on the bright side, when they tow your car for a block party they don't impound it, they just put it on another street. They do charge a $30 fine that I intend to dispute.

And so begin my adventures in a new part of the city...stay tuned for more.