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Category: people-watching

Northwest Best Brewfest – Lewiston, ID

The second of the three festivals I attended this weekend was Lewiston’s second annual Northwest Best Brewfest. (I’m blogging all three festivals, and I’ve already done the National Lentil Festival, in case you missed it.) Some 20+ local and national breweries were represented, each offering samples of their finest creations. The event was ripe with [...]

getting to know Katy Trail

Saturday morning I woke up and — for some unknown reason — decided to dust off the Mizuno’s, don some shorts and a bandana, fire up the ol’ GPS watch, and run to the American Airlines Center and back, via the Katy Trail. It had been just over two months since my last run, and [...]

Pink’s and Obesity: BFFE

When traveling, there are several ways to handle the matter of how you’ll eat. You can adopt the tried-and-true college guy diet of a loaf of bread paired with jars of peanut butter and jelly; You can search the unfamiliar surroundings for familiar signage reading things like “Chili’s” or “Red Lobster;” Or, if you want [...]

Addison & Spectrum

Among the intersections in the Dallas area that I’ve enjoyed unfair amounts of fun over the past few years, few are able to compete with the Bermuda-grass-filled area between Addison Circle and Spectrum Drive in Addison!, Texas. Eleven months ago I blogged about the wonders of July Jazz, a weekly set of free summer concerts [...]

public transit: portable people watching

Public transportation has provided me with a great number of pleasantries to date in Philly. In fact, it’d probably make my list of top three most enjoyable things about the city (provided the weather is cooperating) if such a list existed. There are many people with whom I’m familiar that I would never come in [...]