Tony has been and returned from his conference in Maryland. The autumnal colours were wonderful apparently but the pictures fail to convey them so this time you get a picture of the cat washing his face becuase he obviously didn’t wash properly while he was away.
They hired a car to get back to Washington Dulles airport because it was cheaper than talking a taxi and there was no public transport. Inevitably they took a wrong turning (following the hotel’s ‘excellent’ instructions) but happened across a gas station attendant who had no idea where they were when asked to point out their location on a map of Washington city.