Welcome to this beautiful five-story turn-of-the-century row house on Kalorama Street NW in my neighborhood (Adams Morgan, DC). These beauties line the streets here; I walk by them all the time, daydreaming about the insides. Today, I got a chance to visit this house and enjoy a top-to-bottom personal tour from my friend R who…
Tonight I revisited the land of Lola, which would have made me a bit sentimental, if the Embassy had resembled my life in Costa Rica in any way. Alas, although elegant and distinguished in that generic diplomatic way, with heavy drapery and furniture, and a nicely tended, formal lawn, the Embassy could not have been…
Good friends take you to New Places: A true fact of life. Thanks to a good (And talented. And funny) friend, I got to visit this hitherto-unknown-to-me theater in downtown Silver Spring for their Improv night. It’s a sleeper, this theater—unassuming from the outside, (Marquis? No. Box office? No. Looks like you might be walking…
Alley dive! Gosh, it is getting hard to find even alleys in close proximity that I haven’t explored, let alone streets. I look at the map and there is absolutely nothing within walking distance anymore (Unless I am missing something, which is possible). Well, never mind. Only 95 more days to go after today! We…
Applied the old “turn right instead of left” principle today to explore this area around Nationals Park. Some construction workers must have found it strange to see a woman in a Nationals shirt walking AWAY from the stadium on game day. One or two even offered me directions and pointed me back in the direction…
I’m behind on posting all these New Places (but not behind on seeing them!), so I’ll make these next few blog entries short. Today’s New Place initially seemed pretty unexciting. I found it with daylight thinning at the end of a busy day, while I was running late and hungry and wanted to get home…
Today, in my quest to renew my library books at a different (new to me) public library, I found a whole new neighborhood of DC I didn’t even know existed: Lamond-Riggs (also known as Riggs Park). It’s tucked right up against the Maryland state line in the Northeast quadrant of the city. Pretty exciting! I…
Rainy, rainy. soaking day here in Washington DC—not appealing weather to go exploring in! On top of that, I had a to-do list the length of my leg, also a demotivating factor, and a really bum foot today. I was NOT feeling like a happy explorer. But I took advantage of being down in the…
And with this New Place, I am down to only 100 more new places to go reach my goal of seeing One New Place every day in 2018! Fittingly, today’s New Place was a kind of celebration–a get-together with friends. And as I said before, I am partial, this year, to invitations that take me…
With a lot on my plate today, I waited until well into the early evening to think about my New Place, and then, quite honestly, was less than enthused about having to go out in Friday evening traffic. I tossed around a couple of ideas in my head—I needed something that would also entertain Lola,…