California Bicycle Racing (CBR)

Anthony Bourdain's episode in Washington, DC reinforced two things in my life: that HBO's THE WIRE was the best show ever (written by George Pelecanos, Washington DC local writer) and there is a glimmer of hope for the human race, as I have always thought that Planet Earth it is being FedExxed to extinction.

AB starts with Ben's Chili Bowl, a world-famous establishment that was a DC riot sanctuary on April 4, 1968 due to the anger over MLK's assassination. Ben's Chili Bowl has been there for over 50 years and one day I hope to visit that landmark and try their half-smoke. I also want to visit Busboys & Poets, Chadwick's, El Pollo Rico, DC's Central Kitchen, and the Main Avenue Fish Market.

In the later half, AB is accompanied by a man named Bo, who was sentenced to 40 years in prison for various serious crimes and was later paroled after serving 18 years. DC's Central Kitchen gave him what he needed after he returned to society and he seems to have been a productive member since. He descibes to AB what a perfect day is for him, and the calm that he possesses, especially with his son, seems to have only been acquired after having had such a violent past, as if the present would never have happened without his past.

Anyways, if you get the chance to catch AB's Washington DC episode, I think you'll like the episode and the narration.