“Aisles and aisles of tiles. . .” or “I see tiles for miles and miles. . . ” Today’s New Place obviously inspired poetic reflection. Actually today’s New Place was kind of a tongue-in-cheek choice. “Why not?,” I thought. It seemed a little silly to me–a whole store (and a big one too!) dedicated to…
Another one for my beer garden mini-series here at One New Place! Located in a little plaza on Georgia Avenue in the Petworth neighborhood, Midlands strikes me as less of a German beer garden and more of an outdoors sports bar. Something about it (Oh, I don’t know—maybe the “Go Michigan!” banner?) wasn’t exactly channeling…
Today I found short but sweet Caroline Street, a one-block long side street in the U Street neighborhood of DC. I’m pretty sure I have never been on Caroline Street before, but just in case, I also strolled through the alleys right beside and behind it. Anyway, Caroline Street was a pretty street with trees…
We strapped on our hiking gear and got out in the woods today, now that it’s October and the weather is turning a little bit. I have often heard tell of this Melvin Hazen Trail, but never knew exactly where it was until a couple of months ago, on another One New Place exploration, when…
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…