Day 3 in DC started with my arrival at Union Station, which is a grand old station with a mall and a gorgeous hall. It wasn’t too shabby on the outside, either. From there, I walked down 1st Street a few blocks to the Supreme Court on the Eastern end of the National Mall. It
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Cosmopolitan Wild Turkey Loft at the Angus Barn Raleigh Website $10 The Cosmopolitan is my favorite drink, for its high level of alcohol that comes with cranberry and citrus splashes to help it go down. There are many varieties of the drink, mainly tweaks on the amount of cranberry used and types of citrus juice,
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Alamos Torrontes 2009 Catana, Argentina This is the perfect white wine for me. It’s very tart with plentiful grapefruit and acidity at first, but that gets bathed and soothed with a vegetal greenness: leek? celery? Vanilla pops in with a slight tang of eucalyptus to help wash things down.

Once upon a time, three little tweeps named @demandycom, @thegourmez, and @BCwritr decided to meet up for dinner at a new restaurant by the locally famed David Mao. This was fated, because all three loved food and hanging out with others who also loved food. A date was set and other tweeps of the same
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The TLC Martini Wild Turkey Lounge at the Angus Barn Raleigh Website $8.25 (I think) The Wild Turkey Lounge is the upstairs bar at the Angus Barn. It used to be the cigar lounge, but I imagine it’s actually doing much better business without the cigar smoking. It’s definitely got that barn feeling, and with
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After seeing all the Tidal Basin sites and looking wistfully at the paddle boats, I headed back to the Metro, passing the Bureau of Printing and Engraving and the Holocaust Museum on the way. Then I took the metro out to Arlington National Cemetery, our hallowed and very picturesque, large-scale memorial to all who have
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Where there is travel, there is Becca writing travelogues! Ben and I headed to Gaithersburg, MD, for him to attend 360 Flex, an Adobe conference, and for me to spend far too much time commuting into DC to see more sights than I did on my last trip, two years back. Oh, and also to
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Joey D’s NY Dogs *CLOSED* 3121 Hillsborough Road at the Rock Shop lot. Website Dogs and Sausages: $3–$4 Chips and a drink added for an extra $1.25 Joey D’s NY Dogs is a new food cart offering freshly grilled, Sahleen brand hot dogs and sausages from Buffalo. Joey’s website declares that they are traditionally “garnished
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