Ginormous map! An interesting facet of the conference I’m attending is each subset has a “lightning round” whereby the presenters have one minute to pitch their subject matter. This and the bound copy of the presentations were enough to narrow down the list of things I would be sitting in on for the first few […]
Beautiful Baltimore Read More »
We checked out of our cheap, suburban motel this morning. As we were loading our bags into the cavernous trunk of the Ford Taurus, a huge guy with dreadlocks and wearing a Baltimore Ravens jacket walked towards us excitedly. Now, to thoroughly complete the scene, this is a motel parking lot, isolated from the surrounding
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Today’s travel tidbits: The motel has a do-it-yourself waffle machine. Cheapest gas: $1.99 in Laurel, MD. Prices increased to the south. To Maryland drivers, honking is equivalent to foreplay. The tone is closer to the gentle “pip” == “excuse me” you’d hear in Seattle than the naked aggression of a gristly New York cabbie. I
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Today’s been sucked up by coast-to-coast travel to Baltimore. Random tidbits of the day: This morning I stood behind a lady who used seven bins in the TSA security line: jacket, sweater, shoes, laptop, purse, quart-sized baggie of combustible fluids, and her purse. During an hour-long flight delay in Chicago O’Hare — no doubt caused
On the Right Coast Read More »
We’re two for two this summer on Shakespeare-in-the-park! Last night we went to GreenStage’s presentation of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in Redmond’s Anderson Park. H & M were excited to go and delighted at the double entendres, rolling whenever Bottom spoke or was spoken of.
No, make it two more; let it be written in eight and eight. Read More »
With only eight days left until Ride Around Washington, I’m about as physically ready/pumped as I’m going to get. I still plan to bike commute next week to keep loose, and so the other major player in our fantasy bike commuting league still has to work to win this month 🙂 Later this morning, need
T-minus eight days Read More »
I’m not one who likes to revist the same places. But it says a lot that I’ve been to Deception Pass state park four years in a row. In the previous visits, I’ve gone over July 4th “weekend,” taking a side trip into Oak Harbor for the fireworks gala. WIth the 4th occurring mid-week, I
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Palouse Falls is located in the bottom, right corner of the state, out in the middle of nowhere. My interest in this park was piqued after watching the May NOVA special on megafloods. I rarely get out to this part of the state unless I’m on my way to somewhere else, so when I had
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