Trip, Part III: Sunday
One person who was to be part of the shoot couldn’t make it, so we had to take the shoot to them, up in Manhattan. But first, Paul wanted to ride in DC again and I wanted to see some of the downtown sights along the Mall. Regrettably, one of the places I wanted to stop at was closed (the Washington Monument, which I climbed when I was in DC the first time) because it was still under repair from the earthquake several months previously. I did wander through the Mall and see the many memorials, particularly the Vietnam War memorial, that being the only major war I had a personal involvement with, through my older brother who served a tour over there. The World War II memorial, on the other hand, I didn’t care much for because I thought it looked too much like a Roman monument glorifying war for war’s sake and not as much for the necessary reasons behind getting involved in it.
Then we went to have brunch with friends in the area (who fortunately still had power.) However, it was when we arrived there we discovered the piece of metal embedded in one of the tires, which led to a detour at a tire store and a 3 1⁄2 hour wait for a new tire. That was the second place we went to, as the first place was without power. Our friends there stayed with us the entire time until we got back on the road.
Thus, we didn’t get up to Manhattan until much later than planned, having just enough time to get the final segment of the shoot finished (requiring three takes) before we all had to get some sleep. Of course, I slept as badly as I had before, mainly because there was a streetlight just outside the window at the right height to shine directly in the window.
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