2022 DC to Philly: Day 8
Oct 7 Friday- Philadelphia Warm weather today. We go to Independence Hall and take the tour. The guide is excellent. He knows his history, anecdotes,
Oct 7 Friday- Philadelphia Warm weather today. We go to Independence Hall and take the tour. The guide is excellent. He knows his history, anecdotes,
Oct 6 Thursday– Baltimore, Maryland / Wilmington, Delaware, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Finally see the sun, hooray! We go, for our third day in a row,
Oct 5 Wednesday- DC and Alexandria Last hurrah of Hurricane Ian, destroyer of homes/lives and inconveniencer of vacations. We took the subway up to Arlington
Oct 4 Tuesday- Mt Vernon, DC, Alexandria Having screwed up my days for the tours I signed up for, I realized that I had scheduled
Oct 3 Monday– DC Light rain all day. Stupid hurricane…Got ourselves some metro passes and took the subway into DC for our Capitol tour. Doesn’t
Oct 2 Sunday- Charlottesville and Alexandria The original plan was to hike to BlackRock, a peak where one could view the sunrise and the glorious
I have been on a quest to see all 50 states in the Union. This trip would see us visit Virginia, DC, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania,
I’m reading Maxim Gorky’s The Mother right now. There is a galvanizing incident in the book where the factory workers are charged by the owners
Chapter 12- Conclusions The 1930’s saw the full emergence of one-party state systems run by charismatic leaders ruling over populations called to redemptive purposes. Both
World War I would have a profound effect on socialism. The looming war brought out challenges to orthodox Marxism among the workers and socialists of each
“I have more intellectual pursuits, and less intellect with which to pursue them.“
This website was formerly “the TL;DR place” on tumblr. But I occasionally posted things that I wanted others to see, and they were unable to access the content without tumblr accounts. I called the blog the TL;DR place because the writing I do here is essentially a place for me to process through my thoughts. Most of my friend group isn’t all that interested in the same things, so I write rather than talk through it.
The domain name is a play on my name: David Laurance. David is of Hebrew origin and means something like “beloved”, and my middle name “Laurance” is derived from the name of a great aunt “Laura” back somewhere in the ancestry. The male equivalent is Lawrence, or Larry…. so… “beloved Larry” > everyone loves Larry.