I was in a bar at the Marriott Renaissance Capital View Hotel in Arlington VA last Saturday night. That’s a pricey damned place, let me tell you, and I’m acquainted with Waikiki hotels. If you park for three hours or more in their lot, cough up $29. If I had a smart phone I’d have …
Yessiree Bob, after about ten years of wearing t-shirts from this place, all gifts from my Los Angeles cousins, I finally went to one of its outlets. My verdict: the burgers are excellent, the fries not so much. Of all the fast food places, I still think Mickey D makes the best french fries. You …
Baseball and Packing. It was a very eventful baseball day: the Dodgers scored in the bottom of the eighth inning to take the lead 6-5 after giving up three runs in the seventh which allowed the Nationals to tie the game. Then yesterday’s goat redeemed himself by striking out two of the three guys he …
I’ve bought the tickets, reserved the hotel room, and all I have to do now is get a rental car lined up. 4,826 miles from HNL to DCA. That’s a long trip. Even broken up into two sections, it’s five hours and change a pop. It’s been a long while since I’ve done that. I …
I plan to arrive Thursday evening at my hotel, rent a car Friday morning, and head for Annandale just to see what it looks like. I haven’t been there since my family left three days after graduation in 1968. I have to go see our old neighborhood and house. I’m tempted to drive out Braddock …
The forecast for DC in mid-October is mostly sunny but no higher than about 65 degrees F during the day, and down to the low 50s at night. Since the events we have planned are in the evening, I’m going to die of exposure.
Actually for my class it will be the 48th, but what the heck. I’m thinking of going to a class reunion to be held in the DC suburban town of Annandale next month. I’ve had lots of email contact with a fair number of my classmates thanks to my volunteering to be the photo curator …
For a while now the Thomas Jefferson High School alumni from the first four classes which graduated from the place (1966-1969) have been discussing a reunion this fall, and it’s now push-comes-to-shove time. I have to decide whether to fly all the way across the Pacific and then all the way across the country to …
In tribute to the City of Light. I’ve been there once, in the fall of 1984. We’d just concluded an American Express-conducted European bus tour in Cologne, I think, and we flew from there to Paris on a Lufthansa flight. During that flight we hit the biggest turbulence I’ve ever endured; we lost a whole …
Do you know why the fee to obtain a passport has gone all the way up to $135? Because Fees paid to the Bureau of Consular Affairs cover the costs of everything from making and issuing passports to helping Americans bring home relatives who died overseas or assisting crime victims. The bureau also is in …
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