Date/Time: Sat 20 Aug 2005 08:17:38 AM CDT
And so it begins . . .
Date/Time: Sat 20 Aug 2005 08:17:43 AM CDT
Day 1 - travel happy
Date: 06/29/2006
and its not travel if you're not eating crappy airport food
Date/Time: Mon 22 Aug 2005 11:06:00 AM CDT
taxation without representation, government sanctioned protest statement . . . didn't we fight a revolution about this?
Date/Time: Sun 21 Aug 2005 09:08:39 AM CDT
when arriving in any new city, always first stop by the local Founding Church of Scientology
Date/Time: Sat 20 Aug 2005 05:08:55 PM CDT
The Churchill - DC ops center for this mission
Date/Time: Sat 20 Aug 2005 06:19:07 PM CDT
What the hell were we going to do here again?
Date/Time: Sat 20 Aug 2005 06:49:18 PM CDT
Oh yeah, BEER!
Date: 06/29/2006
mmmm, meat and Russian ale
Date/Time: Sat 20 Aug 2005 08:09:57 PM CDT
Jason and Stevie, unindicted co-conspirators
Date/Time: Sat 20 Aug 2005 08:10:49 PM CDT
Beer Good
Date/Time: Sat 20 Aug 2005 08:11:18 PM CDT
Is that Stevie's "second thoughts" face?
Date/Time: Sat 20 Aug 2005 08:44:12 PM CDT
Hotel, meat, beer... now what?
Date/Time: Sat 20 Aug 2005 09:25:19 PM CDT
Darts, of course! (there IS a reason we call it Beer and Darts)
Date/Time: Sun 21 Aug 2005 07:13:59 AM CDT
Day 2: this is what $37 of hotel pasteries looks like
Date/Time: Sun 21 Aug 2005 09:28:04 AM CDT
this is a monument that replaced a statue, there are lots of monuments and statues in DC
Date/Time: Sun 21 Aug 2005 09:30:44 AM CDT
plumbing the depths of mass transit
Date/Time: Sun 21 Aug 2005 10:40:00 AM CDT
the Baba, the Capitol, the Washington monument... I smell trouble
Date/Time: Sun 21 Aug 2005 10:46:02 AM CDT
Vietnam memorial... it is profound how profound this memorial is when you're there walking through it
Date/Time: Sun 21 Aug 2005 10:37:18 AM CDT
Carrol J Deuso - Boiler Tech, United States Navy - lost December 15th, 1970 in North Vietnam
Date/Time: Sun 21 Aug 2005 10:46:16 AM CDT
the statues were added to contrast the starkness of the walls
Date/Time: Sun 21 Aug 2005 10:41:57 AM CDT
women soldiers from Vietnam
Date/Time: Sun 21 Aug 2005 10:46:46 AM CDT
American and POW flag at the Vietnam memorial
Date/Time: Sun 21 Aug 2005 10:48:48 AM CDT
reflecting pool and Washington Monument, as seen from Lincoln's steps
Date/Time: Sun 21 Aug 2005 10:50:15 AM CDT
Lincoln
Date/Time: Sun 21 Aug 2005 10:52:14 AM CDT
dude is big
Date/Time: Sun 21 Aug 2005 10:52:58 AM CDT
they don't make Republicans like this anymore
Date/Time: Sun 21 Aug 2005 10:53:21 AM CDT
the Stevie and the Lincoln
Date/Time: Sun 21 Aug 2005 10:54:09 AM CDT
lots of room for reflecting in that pool
Date/Time: Sun 21 Aug 2005 10:49:17 AM CDT
the Baba is reflecting on where to go next
Date/Time: Sun 21 Aug 2005 11:03:59 AM CDT
Korean War memorial
Date/Time: Sun 21 Aug 2005 11:06:24 AM CDT
a garden of soldiers
Date/Time: Sun 21 Aug 2005 11:06:08 AM CDT
Korean memorial flags
Date/Time: Sun 21 Aug 2005 11:06:50 AM CDT
FREEDOM IS NOT FREE
Date/Time: Sun 21 Aug 2005 11:23:54 AM CDT
Lincoln and the reflecting pool, as seen from the most hideous installment on the National Mall...
Date/Time: Sun 21 Aug 2005 11:25:21 AM CDT
this? this gaudy thing is how we honor our WWII fallen? . . . the food court on the national mall
Date/Time: Sun 21 Aug 2005 11:26:43 AM CDT
ooh look, it says Texas!
Date/Time: Sun 21 Aug 2005 11:41:17 AM CDT
I hear this is a good place to see a show
Date/Time: Sun 21 Aug 2005 11:39:18 AM CDT
the house where Lincoln died
Date: 07/06/2006
...and as viewed from the Hard Rock cafe
Date: 07/06/2006
the Beatle Bob of the DC Hard Rock
Date/Time: Sun 21 Aug 2005 01:04:56 PM CDT
time for lunch... Stevie's head found a waffle shop!
Date/Time: Sun 21 Aug 2005 01:05:05 PM CDT
chinese AND american
Date: 07/06/2006
eggs and scrapple
Date/Time: Sun 21 Aug 2005 01:27:42 PM CDT
someone call Mulder
Date/Time: Sun 21 Aug 2005 01:30:35 PM CDT
they don't make FBI directors like him anymore
Date/Time: Sun 21 Aug 2005 01:34:16 PM CDT
we felt this guy's ass crack really balanced the picture of Signatures, where crooks like Tom DeLay and Jack Abramoff deal
Date/Time: Sun 21 Aug 2005 01:34:52 PM CDT
when in Rome
Date/Time: Sun 21 Aug 2005 01:35:03 PM CDT
...now where's my payoff, damnit
Date/Time: Sun 21 Aug 2005 01:36:55 PM CDT
no sign of Nick Cage stealing the Declaration of Independence
Date/Time: Sun 21 Aug 2005 01:38:07 PM CDT
the Navy memorial
Date/Time: Sun 21 Aug 2005 01:48:46 PM CDT
Air and Space, we didn't go here
Date/Time: Sun 21 Aug 2005 01:49:00 PM CDT
Orville Wright Building, we didn't go here
Date/Time: Sun 21 Aug 2005 03:46:02 PM CDT
Hirshhorn, we went here
Date/Time: Sun 21 Aug 2005 03:52:40 PM CDT
citizen Stevie and citizen Jason
Date/Time: Sun 21 Aug 2005 03:55:04 PM CDT
Smithsonian castle
Date/Time: Sun 21 Aug 2005 04:08:17 PM CDT
enough monuments, I want answers . . . sadly tho, as our soldiers die and our citizens struggle, our Government was On Vacation
Date/Time: Sun 21 Aug 2005 04:13:18 PM CDT
think happy food thoughts
Date/Time: Sun 21 Aug 2005 04:24:51 PM CDT
Stevie and America - on the move
Date/Time: Sun 21 Aug 2005 04:27:15 PM CDT
PORK CHOP
Date/Time: Sun 21 Aug 2005 04:59:31 PM CDT
Hold it! I want this man arrested! Captain, these men are in criminal violation of the Environmental Protection Act!
Date/Time: Sun 21 Aug 2005 05:05:28 PM CDT
all hail the great King Reagan
Date/Time: Sun 21 Aug 2005 05:12:34 PM CDT
um, would Ronald have really approved of this art?
Date/Time: Mon 22 Aug 2005 11:02:52 AM CDT
its all too much
Date/Time: Sun 21 Aug 2005 05:32:42 PM CDT
escaping from the depths of political quagmire
Date: 07/06/2006
into the world of superb food... mmm, fish eggs
Date: 07/06/2006
if it comes from the sea, its our appetiser... note exceptionally high quality manhattan in background
Date: 07/06/2006
can't beat meat, one of the best steaks I've ever had
Date: 07/06/2006
Stevie's duck and fois gras
Date: 07/06/2006
chocolate tort, lemon souffle, trio of crem brule (chocolate, vanilla, pistachio)
Date/Time: Sun 21 Aug 2005 10:37:40 PM CDT
Stevie: devastated by food
Date: 07/06/2006
I'm not sure this is an improvement
Date/Time: Mon 22 Aug 2005 11:45:00 AM CDT
Day 3: picturesque Georgetown
Date/Time: Mon 22 Aug 2005 11:43:06 AM CDT
time for a drink yet?
Date/Time: Mon 22 Aug 2005 11:47:34 AM CDT
seriously, stop caring
Date/Time: Mon 22 Aug 2005 12:38:26 PM CDT
Nathan's Georgetown
Date: 07/06/2006
note the power being brokered
Date: 07/06/2006
oh dear god, look at the scotch
Date/Time: Mon 22 Aug 2005 02:06:48 PM CDT
this just ain't right
Date/Time: Mon 22 Aug 2005 02:07:47 PM CDT
ok, so these are the locks and the donkeys...
Date/Time: Mon 22 Aug 2005 02:09:29 PM CDT
...pull this boat around
Date/Time: Mon 22 Aug 2005 02:17:41 PM CDT
who says America isn't multicultural
Date/Time: Mon 22 Aug 2005 02:25:34 PM CDT
shocked by the greenery
Date/Time: Mon 22 Aug 2005 02:49:33 PM CDT
where does our Georgetown beer garden end and New Orleans begin
Date: 07/06/2006
Lush Gingerman Bath Bomb (at this point, we were almost arrested for saying "bomb")
Date/Time: Mon 22 Aug 2005 03:36:40 PM CDT
DC Union Station...
Date/Time: Mon 22 Aug 2005 03:58:03 PM CDT
...is a shopping mall?!?
Date/Time: Mon 22 Aug 2005 04:06:11 PM CDT
at least they have coffee
Date/Time: Mon 22 Aug 2005 04:16:27 PM CDT
seriously, this is a train station
Date/Time: Mon 22 Aug 2005 04:40:48 PM CDT
the National Building Museum
Date/Time: Mon 22 Aug 2005 07:52:41 PM CDT
Adams Morgan
Date: 07/06/2006
horrible Adams Morgan dining experience
Date: 07/06/2006
...continued
Date/Time: Mon 22 Aug 2005 09:10:11 PM CDT
at least Jason got a decent sandwich later
Date: 07/06/2006
coffee, pastries and fruit
Date/Time: Mon 22 Aug 2005 11:02:39 AM CDT
the political despair sets in deep
Date/Time: Tue 23 Aug 2005 09:24:49 AM CDT
Baltimore...
Date: 07/06/2006
...watch your back!
Date/Time: Tue 23 Aug 2005 10:08:00 AM CDT
Homicide, life on the Baba
Date/Time: Tue 23 Aug 2005 10:37:32 AM CDT
Normal's Books... abandon all hope, ye who enter here
Date/Time: Tue 23 Aug 2005 11:01:30 AM CDT
this bookstore is clown-enabled
Date/Time: Tue 23 Aug 2005 11:01:38 AM CDT
to get to the books, you have to get through the clowns
Date: 07/06/2006
this is where the shaking and the cold sweats started
Date/Time: Tue 23 Aug 2005 11:00:12 AM CDT
did I mention about the clowns?
Date/Time: Tue 23 Aug 2005 11:06:03 AM CDT
clowns
Date: 07/06/2006
soothing clown trauma with muffuletta at Jason Sugg's Baltimore coffee shop
Date/Time: Tue 23 Aug 2005 01:43:07 PM CDT
everything's federal this, national that, blah blah around here
Date/Time: Tue 23 Aug 2005 03:22:36 PM CDT
unfortunately this is where public transportation...
Date/Time: Tue 23 Aug 2005 03:23:02 PM CDT
...finally let us down
Date/Time: Tue 23 Aug 2005 01:45:57 PM CDT
ooh, art by crazy people
Date/Time: Tue 23 Aug 2005 01:47:25 PM CDT
you can't see the pirate ship on the other side of this building
Date/Time: Tue 23 Aug 2005 01:48:28 PM CDT
hey, crazy people play chess too
Date: 07/06/2006
the last meal