DC is full of people

[gurdonark]

Last night we landed in Baltimore airport, and rode a pleasant forty minute ride to DC. My hotel was oversold, so I had that odd sensation of having a guaranteed reservation at 10 p.m., but having to wait suspensefully for a room. I got one, and thus did not have to get "walked" to the sofitel. The staff said all of DC, MD and VA are sold out for conventions.

A day of deposition ensued today, about which I choose not to elaborate. Tomorrow? Another day of deposition.

Some love DC, some hate it. I kinda like it, but I would not quite ask it to go steady.

Last night at some place called "Stoney's", I broke my usual dietary rules and had a "stoney burger". I was amused at how high that relish was piled atop the pattie. They should rename the restaurant "Relish" or the burger "condiment" Stoney has been in business for 5 decades. That's 1 more decade than me.

Reminder to self: plan a trip to DC to actually see more museums someday.

The humidity here reminds me of my Arkansas childhood. But, sadly, no bicycling, sandlot baseball nor little league ballpark chili dogs here. Well, they DO have cooler statues than Gurdon's Hoo Hoo statue--a black cat with its tail curled up in the shape of the numeral 9-right by the railroad tracks.

Comments

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry I haven't had the chance to meet you, but I'm glad that you at least kinda like the area. :-) It's not ordinarily quite so humid until sometime in July! At least the humidity doesn't upset you much, if I read you right. Too bad you missed out on the peak of the cicada invasion.

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

I DID want to see those cicadas. Our Texas ones are only the boring annual kind!

[elainegrey.livejournal.com]

I don't know -- the Hoo Hoo statue sounds very cool!

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

It is SO cool. I must take a picture next time I'm in Gurdon.

[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

i'm sorry i couldn't come into town to meet you. also sorry that you encountered this hot & soupy weather. if you do get back to town for a more extended stay, with sight-seeing, i'll try to come in by subway for a stoney burger with you. :)

have a safe trip back home!

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

Next time, that would be great. I somehow always picture you in philly, rather than MD, so you can see I have no sense of direction.

[marstokyo.livejournal.com]

I'm very bad about getting down to DC. There's so much there and it's so close but unless I'm being dragged to the inlaws in Silver Spring, I just hardly ever get there. :-( I've become a true Baltimoron!

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

I don't blame you--it's a ways off, traffic wise. We Texans all get amused, though, when what to us would be a short suburb hop becomes in the east a long distance trip. But traffic! Wow! They got it in DC. But it's a nice town--lots to see.

[marstokyo.livejournal.com]

Yes, Baltimore to Washington in rush hour is no picnic. :-(

[arcanum-dogma.livejournal.com]

hadelian and i got to your hotel at 8:30 — thanks to a state trooper who insisted that i was doing 85 mph (my car would fly apart at that speed) despite all the folks who were passing me quite rapidly (i guess newer cars are capable of more than 120 with little strain). the desk clerk said you were going to Ebbitts Grill at 15th and G. after we got there and wandered about hoping to find someone i might recognize, i realised that it was a lost cause.

how long are you in the area?

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

I just got back to Dallas. I am so sorry we did not wait 10 more minutes for you at my hotel. I should also have given the hotel my cell! I apologize. But next time, we'll link up!

[mesawyou.livejournal.com]

Stoney Burger. Wow you went to a landmark. Another landmark is Ben's chili Bowl.

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

I liked it, dive and all.

[jevechan.livejournal.com]

Welcome, welcome to our delightfully steamy state! (Maryland, that is....I know you're in D.C. but, well, you WERE at the airport, which is very close to the town I grew up in.)

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

Cool! I flew out of that airport very dawnishly today. I loved the way there was lots of trees along the roadway, and how all the top secret places exits were clearly marked, but with "employees only" signs.

[jevechan.livejournal.com]

I think it's really weird how the airport boundaries seem to encompass little suburban neighborhoods that were there back when it was a teeny tiny airport. On the news last week, I saw a story about a person there who had a hunk of a plane fall and land in his yard....