Category Archives: DC Diversions
Because I Am Awake At Oh-Dark-Thirty
Way too early, thank you jet lag! At least I made it until about 5:30 today before waking up starving hungry. Sheesh, some vacation schedule this is. All you FS whippersnappers, I have wisdom to impart. Are you ready? Just when your kids get old enough to deal with jet lag, you will get too old […]
Just To Stay Awake
Came back to the States for the first time in a year today. Luckily (or maybe because we flew KLM on our own dime, not United) we had a smooth trip. Some random observations just to stay awake—and to use my smokin’ hot American internet connection, wheee! Traveling is way, way easier without kids and pets. […]
Time for Top Tens!
Three weeks and counting! Made a couple of mental lists while driving around the ‘burbs today. Top Ten Things I Won’t Miss about NoVA 1.) Women in minivans yakking on cell phones. Going ten miles under the speed limit and/or making very slow, wide left turns with one hand. You know who you are. 2.) […]
Tourist in My Hometown: The C&O Canal
This past weekend, my parents and grandmother (yes, I am lucky to still have one!) came up to visit. We spent some Quality Time working on our new house, but took a break on Sunday for a boat trip on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. This is a great DC-area field trip if you have […]
Tourist in My Hometown: Route 29 South
My daughter attends the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, and so every few weeks I drive down to bring her home for the weekend. It’s about a five-hour round trip, but I never mind doing it. I love the landscape–at least once I get past Gainesville. I am sure that it was once a nice […]
Tourist in My Hometown: Clara Barton House and Glen Echo
One of the items on my bucket list, ever since I saw a story in the Washington Post about it a few weeks ago, has been to see the Clara Barton house. Just because it’s there, 20 minutes from home, and in 25 years of living in the area (on and off) I’ve never seen […]
Tourist in My Hometown: Mount Vernon
One of the top items on our bucket list has been to go see the new and improved Mount Vernon. (We’ve been there before, but it was at least ten years ago, before the renovations.) Today was the first day that even came close to real spring weather here in DC, and so we went […]
The Bucket List
You know, the list you have when the reality that you are leaving a post finally sinks in? For a few weeks now, we’ve been adding items to the list. Strangely–or not– the list is mostly about food! Just this weekend, we went to our favorite Mexican greasy-spoon in Herndon, the Tortilla Factory. It’s on […]
