Category Travel
Paris – Day 1
The key to overcoming jet lag is to force yourself to operate on local time as soon as you arrive. So instead of going to bed at the unheard-of hour of 8:30pm (as my body very much wants to do), I’ll post a few pictures from today. We arrived safe and sound in Paris around […]
Birthday! (and really good Islamic art)
Happy birthday to Heather and me! We’re officially 32 years old today. A very grown-up sort of age to be, I think. Heather’s off in the Caribbean celebrating her 10th anniversary with Jordan (she said she’d be snorkeling today). I didn’t have anything special planned for myself but ended up celebrating with a most unexpectedly pleasant trip to […]
Would I go to New York with a bunch of high schoolers?
Miss Waterhouse’s high school students are nothing if not persistent. Remember how I was the focus of a recent session of show-and-tell? Well, according to the latest news out of Denver, I was again a trending topic during discussions about a possible trip to New York. Apparently, when it comes to must-see sights, I rank right up there with the Statue of Liberty, Broadway and Ground Zero. (This arrangement […]
Beach again! Rehoboth and Lewes
Tim — a friend of mine from the newspaper — was on vacation this past week. He’d rented a beach house in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, and he invited me to visit. The weather was perfect, and work not pressing, so I took him up on the offer. For the second time this summer, I went […]
Hurricane Report: 9h00
The bulk of the storm passed me in the night (I’m the pink dot to the lower left). The eye is now is now sitting on top of New York (the pink dot to the upper right). Right now in DC we’re only getting a light rain. It feels very calm and ordinary after yesterday’s stormy energy. The […]
Hurricane Report: 23h55
The storm is still going strong. As you can see from the map below, we’re back in the yellow/orange zone. Torrential rain and strong wind. I’m getting really sleepy, and I need to go to bed. But how can I go to bed when there’s a hurricane? It’s like going to bed in the middle […]
Hurricane Report: 21h40
What does 12-16 inches of rain look like? It’s been raining hard for the past 10 hours where I live, and according to the weather guys we’ve only gotten somewhere between 2-4 inches. So if southern Virginia has gotten 12-16 inches, then I’m impressed and, frankly, have a hard time imagining what that must have […]
Hurricane Report: 20h40
I found a way to plot my position in the map. I’m the pink dot. It makes me sad to see that all the best stuff is passing by to the east! Anyone want to go to Baltimore with me?
Hurricane Report: 17h00
We’re in the middle of our hurricane weekend. Irene has been working her way up the coast all morning. The rain started here a little before noon; the wind didn’t really start until the early afternoon. When I went running at 1:30pm, it was through a medium downpour with gusting winds. Things have gradually gotten worse […]
I love you, Irene!
I love, love, love the natural disasters we get in Washington, DC. They don’t wreak anywhere near the havoc and devastation that their more ferocious cousins do in places like Haiti and Japan — but they provide endless entertainment for me, and they get me out of stuff I don’t want to do. For example: A couple […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 