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:
Posted: May 23rd, 2023 | Filed under: Out Of Town
February 18, 2022
Flew across the country to the Bay Area and by 2:30 in the afternoon had already finished lunch in Half Moon Bay:
Stayed down the road in Santa Cruz near the boardwalk:
February 19, 2022
Monterey Bay Aquarium:
Then drove around in the sunny weather to see the striking Northern California coast in our boss red Dodge Charger:
And later on back in Santa Cruz, The Mystery Spot:
February 20, 2022
Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park and the Apple Park Visitor Center on our way to San Francisco, where we ditched the rental car . . .
February 21-22, 2022
To San Francisco, enjoyed blue skies walking through Fort Mason toward Fisherman’s Wharf:
…and at Lands End:
And whole fried crab at R&G Lounge:
February 23, 2022
Went across the bay to Oakland Jack London Square Station to catch the Coast Starlight Amtrak train to Los Angeles:
February 25, 2022
Disneyland!
February 26, 2022
Brunch at Magic Castle:
February 27, 2022
LA Galaxy vs. NYCFC at Dignity Health Sports Park in nearby Carson:
And Cambodian food for dinner in Long Beach at Sophy’s Restaurant:
