Showing posts with label The Odyssey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Odyssey. Show all posts

Friday, March 2, 2012

Where do I live again?

In this week's installment of "Things I didn't know existed in DC" is this structure:


On a few recent beautiful days, I've been taking an afternoon run around the National Mall.  
However, today, instead of taking the interior path (along what used to be the Reflecting Pool), I ran up Independence Ave.  
What the hell are these two walls leading to?  The Basin?

I thought of The Odyssey.  Scylla and Charybdis, anyone?