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Georgia Reset

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  Way back in February we found ourselves looking at a long weekend without a good plan for what to do with it. We've been unusually awful at thinking ahead about these things lately, but thankfully George and Atima swooped in with an invitation to join them for a trip down to coastal Georgia. As I've covered here before the vibe in DC was... not great back then, so we were eager for any chance to get out for a little while (to be clear the vibe in DC is still rancid even now, but it's receded from abject shock and horror to numb pessimism as we wait to see how much stupider things will get each day). Three-quarters of us were immigrants of some sort and three-quarters were working in government or international development, so a temporary escape from DC and the insanity was sorely needed.  So it was that the four of us piled into my car on February 14 and made the 9-hour drive from DC down to Georgia. Cumberland Island , our destination for the weekend, is the largest of G...