The closest I've been to the White House in years after Marine One arrives.

Pennsylvania Avenue AND the sidewalk in front of the White House have reopened for the first time in, well, years and I was able to go up, stick my hand through the fence and get a pretty good picture of the grounds. In the past, the road was opened but the sidewalk closed due to concerns about jumpers going over the fence, but with the new mega-fence around the White House grounds, they now feel confident enough to reopen the sidewalk and let you get a much closer look at the building. We also managed to catch Marine One landing over the In America Flags memorial for COVID victims on the National Mall today. Show not Tell —————— PenguinSix is an apolitical guy in a political town who likes to walk a lot. He has hiked over 17,000 miles (27,000kms) in the past six years and is still walking today. He is an American expat who spent the last decade in Hong Kong with his family and is now back in Washington DC, continuing his daily ritual of taking very long hikes around the city catching the sights and sounds