There's a a little known fact about me that I keep on the QT for no particular reason. For some reason I'm gonna tell you. I like trains. I don't love them to the extent that I collect them or have the need to travel to train museums, but I like them. My favorite exhibit at the Franklin Institute is the train room. There's a working locomotive ( Read more... )

I was job hunting and had made the decision not to apply for a position because it's in Washington, DC, a city I actually like. I said to myself 'I like to visit but I wouldn't want to live there. Then I said, 'That's not right.' An apartment up near Georgetown isn't a bad thing and I've wandered around a few neighborhoods and found them ( Read more... )

Gary and I have been discussing travel. Usually, it's me teasing him about wanting to go to Prague. The other day I challenged him to write a list of cities anywhere in the world he wants to visit, but he could only name 20 and at least 10 had to be cities he's never visited. I promised to do the same ( Read more... )