In a pretty amazing surprise from my wife, I got to fly a plane yesterday! She just told me “don’t make any plans for Sunday,” so I had absolutely no idea what was going on until we pulled up to a small local airport. This airport functions primarily as a flight school and she had [...]
Last weekend, we went up to PA for a day of skiing with my mom at Camelback, the same place we went with her last year. They’ve gotten a decent amount of snow up there this year (despite the lack of it closer to my house), and it’s been plenty cold, so the conditions were [...]
I wrote a few months ago about starting off the “concert season” strong with two great shows, and we ended it strong this fall as well. Although with nothing in between… First up were two concerts a mere three days apart in August at Merriweather Post Pavilion: Keane and Barenaked Ladies. There was a pretty [...]
I celebrated Father’s Day with my dad this year by spending a long weekend with him on our annual roller-coaster-hunting trip. This year’s destination: Kings Dominion in Virginia. We hadn’t been to Kings Dominion for several years, but it’s a great destination for our coaster weekends. It’s one of the closest parks to us, located [...]
Summer is still a month away, but we’re already getting an early start on concerts for this year! Back at the tail end of April, we headed down to College Park for Art Attack XXVII. Art Attack is an annual event/concert at the University of Maryland, though I only went once or twice. Hmm. Either [...]
So I turned 29 this year. Not really much of a milestone in itself, but it does mark the beginning of the last year of my twenties. That’s also not that much of a big deal, but I’m sure my friends and family will rub it in plenty next year when I reach 30. So [...]
My wife and I have been wanting to visit the Southwest US for quite a while, and decided that this was finally the year to do it. There’s a ton of stuff to see in the Southwest, but it turns out that it is all very far apart (I’m from Delaware, so this is a [...]
Seeing as we’ve had all this snow this winter, we might as well put it to good use, right? Since we’re not particularly far north or up in huge mountains like the resorts in Vermont or the Rockies, conditions at ski resorts in the Mid-Atlantic (in my experience, at least), typically consist of packed, machine-made [...]
Happy 2010! Can you believe it? The year flew by and this past week was certainly no exception. As always, I had grand plans for the many things I would get done during my week off between Christmas and New Year’s and, as always, my actual productivity fell far short of the mark. But that’s [...]
This weekend, the two of us went into DC to see The Phenomenal Handclap Band play at the Rock & Roll Hotel. Neither of us had heard of the band before, but our friend Verena likes them and knew that we would too, so she invited us to go check it out. THEY WERE AWESOME! [...]
