Things we don't miss

Not that this is breaking news to anyone who has ever lived in Washington, but apparently it is now ranked as having the third worst traffic in the US, behind LA and San Francisco. I thought it had ranked as second worst for several years, so I wonder what happened. Anyway, when we went back to DC for a few days in December we were very quickly reminded at how stressful driving is there. I could see Kirk's blood pressure rising right before my eyes as he began to curse and honk at all the surrounding drivers. OK, maybe I'm exaggerating a bit, but it was such a stark constrast to driving in Switzerland where things are generally quite orderly and people seem to actually know how to drive.