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Rockafeller Center

I couldn’t have had a better vacation. It was an easy, low-traffic drive to New Jersey for the Christmas Eve party. That was followed by a party Christmas day in Staten Island. We left Staten Island for Manhattan and got there just in time to see the tree in Rockafeller Center before they shut it off until next year.

As if everything hadn’t already been nearly perfect, a fog dropped over NYC Christmas night, making for some of the most beautiful photos I’ve ever taken. The photos can’t compare to real life, though… NYC in the fog is breathtaking.

From NYC (America’s first capitol) we headed for Philadelphia (the second capitol) in hopes of seeing some American history, and we got to see some, but Philadelphia is a serious fucking slum and we decided to haul ass.

From one slum to another, we headed for Washington DC after a short stay overnight in Delaware. Our nation’s third capitol is certainly beautiful — that is, if you’re downtown… in the day time… and standing in the right place. Everything that’s not downtown is more slum. But all the landmarks are nice to look at. And from there, it was a relatively pleasant drive home.