Outpost 505

A visit to Rare Device was at the top of my list – on par with Shane’s trip to Treats – so we headed there after our lunch at Monk’s Kettle. I’ve been internet friends with Rena, one of the owners, since sometime in the early aughts, back when I was a bored customer service [...]

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After a long day of beer and coffee and driving, neither of us were really up for a big dinner, much less going far out of our way for dinner. Ed gave us a few recommendations in his neighborhood, and we ended up just walking down 24th and checking out menus until we found something [...]

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I’m the wrong person to write a post about Russian River. I really am. I can’t do it justice, and for that, I’m sorry. I can, however, tell you that the Russian River brewpub is located on a quiet street in a cute downtown area – quiet and cute in the middle of a Tuesday, [...]

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Back in the day, a very long time before I knew Shane, he was really into electronic music.  I’m not sure if his devotion to electronic music reached the same heights as my devotion to a certain Canadian band, but I do know that he was similarly involved in online communities related to his musical [...]

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I’ll admit it: I was a wanna-be hippie in high school and college. I wore tie-dye and had Jim Morrison posters on my walls. I even have photos to prove it: Like every kid of my ilk, I had fantasies of packing it in and moving to the Haight, of bathing in patchouli and growing [...]

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We were in a bit of a daze after the farmer’s market, so we took a midday nap, and woke up all discombobulated about time and place and whether or not we were hungry. That’s the problem with naps sometimes – you wake up and have lost all sense of your day. Shane was a [...]

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Another really lovely night of food and conversation but no photos! While there were many delightful things to look forward to on this trip, one of the highlights for me was getting to have dinner with two of my college friends, Blaze and Heather.  We were all students at Rockford College, but didn’t meet until [...]

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Now that we’re home and reflecting on our trip, I realize that we have very few photos of some of the most fun or interesting things we did on our trip. Like dinner on our first night – our first experience with Mongolian hot pot. Nate – a high school friend of Shane’s – and [...]

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We hadn’t planned on a particularly touristy honeymoon. Living in DC and having access to world class museums and a zoo for free spoiled most tourist attractions for us – either because we have a hard time justifying the cost, or because we dread the crush of humanity. We’re much more interested in getting to [...]

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Photo by Michael Greenlee We found ourselves in an embarrassing spot tonight. Not literally – there’s nothing embarrassing about Sidetrack except perhaps the size of their burgers – but then I suppose you already assumed that. What is, however, embarrassing is running into your neighbors when out to eat and having to face the fact [...]

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