I met a girl named Emma at the Ugly Mug. She is a recently graduated health policy professional from Brown graduate school and finding her way around D.C. for the first week in her new home. She’s from Massachusetts and educated in New Hampshire, so I was happy to have such a fervent […]

Yesterday Scott and I left DC after a weeklong-plus stay. Things I learned:

Mike and Emily are going to name one of their new puppies Chubs, which coincidentally was once the nickname for my penis. Hope they enjoy that for the next 15 years!
Dan is, like Scott, enraged at Obama over the FISA capitulation and is […]

I don’t know when we’ll have internet access again but there are three new posts so don’t forget to scroll down. I have to work on shortening them. Also, lost of great pictures are up at the flickr site. Just click on the word pictures at the top

Friday was the 4th and the day I had been most excited for. I loaded up the bike for a possible late night run out to Maryland to meet Brendan and set off with my backpack for the Capitol Mall. Every year around Independence Day, the Smithsonian Institute puts on the Folklife Festival. […]

Spending a week in one place might not seem like road trip behavior but Washington D.C. is a pretty cool place to do it. I’ve always wanted to have time to explore around D.C. and am just sorry that I didn’t schedule a White House tour far enough in advance. D.C. started with […]

The ride to D.C. was nice as we took back roads and county highways. At one point we made a wrong turn that brought us by some beautiful houses on an absolutely great driving road.

Nothing else of much excitement on this drive to write about, although I did see something in Baltimore […]