Tuesday, May 24, 2011

On the town

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I woke up early on Wednesday to see as much of the city as I could before I flew out that evening. I headed down to the National Mall to mee...
Tuesday, May 17, 2011

These hallowed halls

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I promised that there would be poop jokes in this post, and I’m sorry to say that I don’t have any at the moment. But I do have a lot more t...
Saturday, May 14, 2011

Lobby Day!

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Did you know that the Senate has its own barber? I don’t know what to say about that, or even if anything needs to be said, but it was pr...
Friday, May 13, 2011

The District

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After a mildly excruciating networking hour (I barely made it through fifteen minutes), the conference adjourned for the day. I went for a ...
Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Talking shop

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I was going to put this post up last night, but by the time that I got back to my friend’s place, I was too tired to think. What a day. My...
Sunday, May 08, 2011

Mr. Stone goes to Washington

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I’m tempted to say that it’s been a while, but that’s how I open up the first post of every trip. Clearly, no matter how long it’s been, I s...
Sunday, August 01, 2010

Heading Home

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We woke up early on Sunday morning and met a friend of ours for breakfast at a great little cafe downtown.  It's apparently pretty famou...
Saturday, July 31, 2010

Destination: L.A.

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We pulled into Los Angeles in the late afternoon, although we didn't see the city before nightfall.  It took me a while to find an Amtra...

In which I actually talk about a train ride.

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I love trains, and whatever else I said at the beginning of the last post. But seriously, there's something magical about traveling ac...

All Aboard!

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I love trains.  Everything about them, from the turn of the century nostalgia to the fuel efficiency just warms me up.  They're great.  ...

Grapes of Wrath

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Salinas, California is an anachronism.  It's not one of those cities that has been neglected since the 1950's, it just is the 1950...
Friday, July 30, 2010

Back in the Saddle

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Now that our legs had thoroughly recovered from the staircase of a road that we took to Big Sur, it was time to get back on the bikes. ...
Thursday, July 29, 2010

Lazy day

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Thursday was a pretty casual day for us (and that's saying something).  We woke up sometime between noon and, well, noon.  We lounged ar...