Cleveland Park Warnings or Dangers
Cleveland Park travel tips posted by real travelers and Cleveland Park locals.
Local Time 11:06 pm Saturday, September 6, 2008
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on February 4, 2006
As I had already known it I started to drive in my usual in Europe way when I look for parking place. I drove cirle way always right starting from smaller circles to larger ones. I didn't have exact map of the area but free map of Washington, DC. Well, in case of getting lost I had a software map in my laptop in a trunk. Anyway, driving along long rows of parked cars I thought how many cars the locals had per one family/house, 5 or more?
When I finally found a gap exactly for my long (in my European mind) car and parked the car almost in Paris style (bumper to bumper) I noticed small, funny, suprisingly yellow not red, vertical pipe just by the back door. Oh my God, I surely knew well that parking by any hydrant is strictly forbidden in the USA. More, your car maybe towed away that must be very expensive, I guess. Well, just in case of real fire of a house you might be charged of possible loss, poor you and your kids in that case. Hmm... in some European regions (if you drive more to south and east in Europe) noone cares about any hydrants.
OK. No way, I continued "circulating" and after maybe long 20 min. I was lucky to find place for my tired Buick Le Sabre, by coincidence even not very far from the cathedral, maybe some 500 yards along 36th street (map here).
Now, I got to know that 18-month garage construction project began in July 2005, details here. Bravo! I knew that the USA was a car country :-) although temporarily the construction may cause even more problems.
