You got to love a school that paints a colorful map of the United States on its playground–give the little explorers New Places to dream about! I would have loved that when I was a kid. Tilden Elementary School, where I did not go to school, but some of my friends did, is just…
I wonder what else I have been driving past my entire life at 70 mph? Harrisburg is a city I have driven through over a thousand times, no kidding. Back and forth to college, back and forth to grad school, back and forth to DC, I have passed through Harrisburg on a bridge going about…
Sometimes seeing a new place is as easy as walking with a friend by a building you have walked by many times, saying to each other, “I wonder if that is open.” “Shall we try?” “Sure.” “Why not?”, putting your hand on the door handle, testing it, raising your eyebrows at each other in surprised…
New Places, new friends! Meet “Snappy” the star of today’s New Place. Snappy lives at the Anacostia Park Aquatic Resources Education Center where he entertains himself by terrifying dogs and small children. Lola was, shall we say, not amused when Snappy’s prehistoric head rose up from the depths of his aquarium to glare out of…
I was up in the Forest Hill neighborhood of DC again today for the third (and probably final) time, so decided to go a little deeper in my exploration there. I was actually looking for a park/playground I saw on the map, but instead I stumbled on this ginormous “mystery mansion.” What is it? Who…
I intended to explore a New Place in Silver Spring, MD, today, as a doctor’s appointment took me up there, but plans got waylaid when the blankety-blank eye doctor dilated my pupils, causing my eyeballs to feel like somebody had ripped a bandage off of them in the bright August sun. I was in no…
This is a different kind of DC alley. . . . When I was in the Forest Hills neighborhood of DC on Monday, I glanced down an alley and was amazed at how un-alleylike it looked—more like a country lane than the DC alleys I am familiar with. So when I had to make a…
So there this acrophobic stood, gulping at the top of the stairs where a priest was filmed falling to his death in the final scene of the movie The Exorcist. In one hand, I clutched the railing; in the other, my iPhone camera. Georgetown University students, male and female with calves the size of baseballs,…
225 New Places seen in 225 consecutive days, since the start of 2018! I’m almost 2/3 of the way through the year and towards my goal!! Today I was introduced to the Forest Hills neighborhood, in what I call the “deep Northwest” of DC. This neighborhood is tucked just between two main streets that I travel…
Wow, I had to overcome serious resistance to go out and see today’s New Place. I spent most of the morning and a good part of the early afternoon out with friends at non-new places, so when I came home, and then the rain started in the late afternoon (busting my plans to go to…
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