1991

A Place Called Reston

Sunset over Lake Audubon as seen from our balcony.

By spring we had pretty much settled into the townhouse on Lake Audubon, work for both Julie and I at ICL was going well, Anne was living at home and going to George Mason. Living in and working in Reston was wonderful. Reston a suburb of Washington, DC, positioned west of the city in Virginia.  A “planned” community, Reston’s master plan was designed by Robert Simon to have planned, self-contained communities with residential and commercial spaces separated by green space filled with pathways and parks.  Having been in Reston now for two years, I began to appreciate Simon’s concept, living in a residential area, overlooking a lake, but yet five minutes from work in a commercial area separated by green space with pathways.  On nice days I would ride my bike down the pathway to work, a fifteen-minute ride.  On weekends I would often explore the pathways on my bike, seeing where they led to, finding myself in one neighborhood or another, sometimes not sure where I was but finding my way back home by another route.

Doc Holiday