U Street

My tour book tells me U-Street is being revitalized and is the up and coming new hip district for young African Americans. It also tells me there's a lot of good food.

Well, I don't like to go into cafes alone, and it's worse when the cafes are ethiopian, full of ethiopians, and full of people who all know each other. So I now understand why people go to chain stores when they travel...you can at least eat alone and no one bugs you about it.

Then I went off U-Street to capture the character. In essence it can be distilled into KFC and Remy Martin:

Colorful and ghetto:

And houses that look beautiful on the outside, but then you realize they all have serious bars on their windows and are smashed together (more so than usual).