Wow, close one! Today’s New Place almost didn’t happen. I left it go until the end of the day, thinking I would go someplace after Physical Therapy. That place was a no-go because of traffic. So I drove home an alternate route, thinking I would find a park I had driven by last week. But…
Today I got into American University Law School! It started innocently enough: I was looking for a New Place in the Tenleytown neighborhood (where I had a errand earlier in the day), came upon the Law School campus and decided to walk around. Although looking at the outside of the buildings was in and of itself interesting,…
Sometimes a New Place stares you in the face every day, and you are so used to seeing/not seeing it right in front of you, you don’t even realize you could explore it a little more deeply. Grand Oaks shares a parking lot with the hospital where I do my Physical Therapy. Three times a…
New Places, new technology. Today’s New Place (brought to me by a medical appointment) took me downtown to this big complex, the Lafayette Center, which covered almost a whole city block, and introduced me to a new-fangled elevator that nobody ever asked for and nobody ever wanted. In the world of the future you apparently have…
The last time I came to Kenilworth Gardens in 2016, I wasn’t walking well enough to visit the boardwalk area over the marshes, so I have to specify that only that section of the park is my official New Place for today. (P.S. Today I could walk it no problem!!!!) But the whole outing was…
My 200th new place of the year!!!! To celebrate this milestone, I got me some Carolina BBQ at this joint that is (perhaps dangerously) on the way home from the hospital, hidden down a little side alley. I’ve known about it for years but never stopped. Tonight I needed both a fast dinner and a…
Today was definitely a WTF day here at One New Place. Aggregate Industries and Vent Shaft E-14 were NOT my intended destinations tonight. I didn’t even know Aggregate Industries and Vent Shaft E-14 existed. Nor do I know exactly what Aggregate Industries or Vent Shaft E-14 are (or exactly where I was–somewhere in NE DC).…
Oh lookie here! A new place to sleep tonight! Not quite the Ritz Carlton, but hey, it’s a New Place. I’ll take it! . Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Poor little, inauspicious Thornton Place NW. It’s barely noticeable (even it’s street sign is camouflauged) between its swankier connecting streets, Wyoming and Kalorama streets. Only a scant block long, it doesn’t even have an address to claim as its own—only overflow (the sides and backs of properties) from it’s tony neighbors. But I was glad to…
Like a cross between a micro-brewery and the back-woods still your great grand-daddy set up down by the river to entertain friends—that’s my best description of “Bardo.” You really have to search this place out: No roofs, no buildings, no doors—just a ramshackle plank signpost announcing “Bardo” and a path leading down by some Job…