Preparing for the Next Four Years

Despite the bitter cold and dusting of snow, the roads were not too bad this afternoon, even by our southern sensibility, and so we headed down to the National Mall, hoping that we might find it a little less populated than usual on a Saturday afternoon. And there were considerably fewer folks out and about, but it was still a bit of a challenge to find a parking space, mostly because of all the flat bed trucks delivering and setting up their cargo:

row upon row upon row of porta-johns.