The Potomac River flows just 15 minutes away from home. Went to check it out. Also took an 8 km hike through the forest. There’s a beautiful waterfall there, great views, and a real forest – photos attached) The weather is only gray and ugly now, but comparatively warm – 10 degrees Celsius.
On the way to the river, there’s a local “Rublevka” with homes priced around $10-15 million. (http://goo.gl/xM2j0Q). An interesting feature – no matter how “fancy” the house, it never has a fence. That is, there’s no solid fence – maybe a small waist-high or a bit taller one for aesthetics. On the other hand, here you can shoot someone who enters your property and presents a threat.
By the way, Bank of America sent a credit card in the mail the second day after visiting their office. Set up my “home accounting” on MINT.com – it can connect to the bank and automatically pull transactions and other useful things. So far, it correctly identifies all purchases by categories based on the bank statement. That is, if I spent money today at Silver Diner, it knows it’s “Restaurants,” and Sunoco is “Gas.”
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