Posted: February 10th, 2024 | Filed under: Out Of Town
February 18, 2023
Landed in time to see the setting sun:
February 19, 2023
World Championship Hoop Dance Contest was happening at the Heard Museum:
February 20, 2023
Burritos at Carolina’s Mexican Food on Mohave Street:
February 21, 2023
Echo Canyon Trail on Camelback Mountain:
February 22, 2023
Musical Instrument Museum:
February 23, 2023
Drove down to Tucson and saw Biosphere 2:
Then walked around the Barrio Viejo neighborhood in Tucson:
February 24, 2023
The main public transit hub in downtown Tucson is named for Linda Ronstadt:
Made a return visit to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in the desert outside Tucson:
Returning to Phoenix, sunset over Interstate 10:
February 25, 2023
La Pasadita Hot Dogs on the west side of Phoenix:
Posted: June 29th, 2023 | Filed under: Out Of Town
January 14, 2023
Drove up during the day and ate dinner in the Seaport District, which has grown a lot since we were there in 2010:
January 15, 2023
Walked the entirety of The Freedom Trail in the cold! Bunker Hill in Charlestown:
USS Constitution:
Copp’s Hill Burying Ground in the North End:
Granary Burying Ground:
The trail ends (or begins!) at Boston Common, where the new sculpture The Embrace sits:
Indeed, some angles are weird:
January 16, 2023
Took an MBTA Commuter Rail train to Salem. Yes, that’s Elizabeth Montgomery:
The Salem Witch Trials memorial:
The Satanic Temple (alas, closed Mondays):
Then returned to Boston where we met up in Dorchester, near the James Blake House, dating to 1661, the oldest surviving house in Boston:
Posted: May 27th, 2023 | Filed under: Out Of Town
April 20, 2022
A spring break short trip to DC. Got up early to get a jump on things and was already into New Jersey before 6 a.m.:
National Museum of Natural History, mostly to use the bathroom after the long journey, but also to see the Hope Diamond:
National Museum of African American History & Culture:
April 21, 2022
Country Fried Steak and Eggs for breakfast at Bob & Edith’s Diner in Arlington County:
Spy Museum — this is an inflatable tank designed to fool spy satellites:
New architecture = picturesque stairwells? The Spy Museum followed by the National Museum of African American History & Culture:
A walk to the Jefferson Memorial, thinking there might be cherry blossoms still (there weren’t):
Chercher Ethiopian Restaurant for dinner:
April 22, 2022
In the morning, a project to take all the different trains in the DC area, including the Virginia Railway Express and MARC commuter trains and all the DC Metro lines:
National Children’s Museum:
April 23, 2022
Clemyjontri Park in McLean, Virginia:
Fairlington Park in Arlington, Virginia:
April 24, 2022
National Mall, 6:18 a.m., right before a morning run — the whole loop from the Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial and back to wherever you began is a little under five miles:
Lunch and a quick tour through the National Museum of the American Indian before getting stuck in hours of traffic on the way back home:
