TO WASHINGTON, BY TRUCK

I cannot get enough of this video of a trucker and his son who road-tripped to Washington, DC for the inauguration:

The seven-year-old boy says he's been waiting for this his whole life. Gracious. And if anyone knows how to bottle that voice of his (you know, to take a whiff of on dark days), then please drop a line.

Some other coverage I've been enjoying from the inauguration includes Christopher Beam's dispatch after crashing George Bush's farewell party:

"Are these all white people—I mean White House people?" I asked someone in a genuine Freudian slip.

And, also from Slate, this odd, defensive, half-hearted piece from Christopher Hitchens, who seems to be trying to explain his bulldog loyalty to the outgoing president over these past eight years. Amid all the doggy-paddling, he offers a bracing line from the Department of Cold Showers:

It's just that there's an element of hubris in all this current hope-mongering and that I am beginning to be a little bit afraid to think of what Wednesday morning will feel like.

Well, it's Wednesday morning. While we wait for the clouds to gather, let's just keep watching this video of a man and his son, who seem to feel like they are finally a part of something big. ~ EMILY BOBROW