A trip to Savage, Maryland

Do you know what a Bollman Truss Bridge is? Well, I did not either until last week. Brad and I had been continuing our exploration of local places of interest, remembering a highway sign along Interstate 95 in Howard County, Maryland. “Visit Historic Savage” it implored. Savage is barely 25 miles from our house, so […]

More places to discover around the metropolitan Washington DC area

It’s raining buckets here in DC. The yard looks like I should be thinking about investing in a boat. Though it seems that my banana plant (Musa Basjoo) is quite liking all this water. Since it is so miserable outside I thought I’d bore everyone with a follow up to my last blog. A couple […]

Going stir crazy…

So here we are about seven months into this Covid mess. There seems to be no end in sight. The whole thing is rather depressing. No eating out, no theater and no concerts at Strathmore to enjoy. All my favorite model train shows have been cancelled. My birthday trip in April to Tallinn (Estonia) was […]