As excited as I am to be heading off to India, and get a general restart to my life, there are certain things that I'm going to miss about life here in the District of Columbia.

• My garden
  
• Polish coffee at Domku
  
• Thursday nights at the Dorothy Day House
  
• Old friends, and new
  
• The people I worked with
  
• Metro
• Being able to walk to so many of the places I need to go
  
• Biking through the city (though I am not going to miss that uphill climb up New Hampshire Avenue on the way home)
  
• Netflix
  
• The tidal basin
• As skeptical as I am of government, it was still kinda cool to spend my days just down the street from the White House and see famous political types on a regular basis
  
• I never had to travel far to go to a protest
  
• The Dupont Circle Farmers Market (though I think this will continue to have a place in my life)
  
• Record stores.  My partner and I were just discussing this morning that outside of urban markets its impossible to buy a record from a store other than Best Buy or FYE, because other stores just don't exist.  
• Have you ever seen the sunset on U street?  I think it's a delight.
• 18th street people watching.  Oh the drama you see
• Rock Creek Cemetary was practically my back yard
• Gus Gus
• Naan and Beyond - the best veggie samosas around, and only a block from my old office
• Oh, and the Jasmine Bazaar,  an Indian market in Takoma Park
• Driving into the city, from Virginia, on 395, at night.  There is this moment where you come around a turn and all of the sudden it is just emblazoned in front of you, a sea of lights and monumental buildings.  Funny that a city is at it's most beautiful in the dark.