Today’s roaming about the District takes Nicholas and Daddy northwest out of the District toward Chevy Chase and Bethesda in Maryland.
Yeah, it sounds weird but there is actually a town called Chevy Chase just over the border of Montgomery County. Before you fans of one of the most famous of the Saturday Night Live players start getting all proud of yourselves, the actual Town of Chevy Chase was incorporated in 1918. That would be well before Cornelius Crane Chase who was born in 1943 in New York…and I think you can see why he might well want to requisition a new name. Oy vey! And besides, I am Cornelius Chase and you are not doesn’t quite work as well as I am Chevy Chase and you are not!
Seriously, this is actually a very pretty drive from Children’s through Rock Creek Park to the west before you turn more northerly toward Maryland. That’s something that takes a bit of getting used to…because the Distric is so small, you cross borders so often that it almost becomes blase. Yeah, Maryland. Big deal. Virginia. Eh. Back in the District again. Woo hoo. It wasn’t uncommon for these trips to hit all three of them in one trip. It just feels a bit weird, that’s all. 🙂
This was obviously a more well-to-do section of town. But what was surprising was that a six mile trip to Bethesda took about a hour and a half. I’m not kidding…the roads, traffic, and signals are just that awful. And it wasn’t even rush hour, campers!
But it’s a beautiful drive, nonetheless. Too bad Nicholas didn’t stay awake long enough to truly appreciate it!