The nice thing about a flight that leaves at 11pm - you have all day to finish up last-minute packing. ‘All day’ is a lot shorter than it would at first seem. We left our car at SQ’s office in Reston and took a cab to Dulles from there, after being a bit [...]
In DC, when things change it’s generally for the better - unless, of course, you’re talking about the political scene. Among the greatest benefits of the ever-expanding political human capital infrastructure - which now easily stretches well beyond our quasi-rural home and into West Virginia and Pennsylvania - is the continued infusion of urban consumer [...]
514 8th Street, SE, Washington, DC
202.544.0100
www.belgacafe.com
OK, I admit I picked this place because my father-in-law is WAY into beer. The fact that they also happen to serve one of my top 2 favorite beers, Leffe Blond, was absolutely inconsequential. Belga actually happens to have a very long list of Belgian beers, I need [...]
Last night Willy and I got a chance to head over to Three Fox Vineyards (directions) for the second time in a little over a week: this time with our closest friends who are headed back to Tampa to live. Three Fox is a quaint, yet accessible winery set comfortably on a hill about 8 [...]
So we are leaving on Wednesday night for an extended UK trip with Syd and SQ’s parents. This trip is really the realization of Syd’s dream, and the nagging from her since she was about 5 or 6 to take her to Scotland. I’m not quite sure how she became obsessed with Scotland [...]
We’re headed off to Scotland next week and will be attempting to report on our daily progress as live as we can. This will be our first experiment with just-in-time blogging, so we’re eager to figure out exactly how you get net connectivity from the highlands (of course that’s what we were thinking last [...]