At Home In The Wasteland Travel Blog

Back in July we took a road trip through New England, first stopping in Hershey, Pennsylvania (yeah, I know that Pennsylvania isn’t New England, but hey – chocolate) and then driving through upstate New York and Vermont to Maine, with a final stop in Boston before heading back to DC. Despite living on the East [...]

On Sunday, Laura and I drove up to Pittsburgh for the day to see the Pirates play the Cardinals and scratch PNC Park off of our list of ballparks to visit. And yes, we did just go to Pittsburgh for the day. It’s about 3.5-4 hours from DC, and everyone thought we were absolutely insane [...]

Despite living on the east coast for eight years, I’ve never been to Philadelphia, so I decided to drive up there this past weekend and visit Moira, one of my friends from LSE. The first thing we did was eat a cheesesteak from Dalessandro’s. I forgot to take a picture of it, but it was [...]

I met my dad and brother in New York City this past weekend to see the Yankees play the Royals at Yankee Stadium. This was something I really wanted to do this summer, as Yankee Stadium will be demolished following the end of this season, and the Yankees will start their 2009 season in a [...]

Camera phone FTW Monday night marked the first game of the Angels-Nats interleague series, so I dusted off my incredibly large Angels jersey (no really, it’s like really big. I bought it before they started making the women’s cut, so I swim around in the smallest men’s size) and headed down to Nationals Park. A [...]

As I previously mentioned, the entire reason I took this trip to New York City was to see the Mets play at Shea Stadium. After NYPD gave us the go ahead to leave the scene of the accident, we caught another cab. “Did something happen here?” our new cab driver inquired. “Yeah, our cab driver [...]

Or maybe the economy kinda sucks? Our nation’s infrastructure crumbling? Something? Anything but this? Congress wants to hear more from Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig and players’ union head Donald Fehr about their 2005 testimony on steroids in the sport. Reps. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., and Tom Davis, R-Va., the leaders of the House Committee [...]

Top ten reasons why Houston is better than DC: 1. Abundance of cheap Mexican food 2. BBQ. Like, reeeeal BBQ. 3. Apparently you can surf in Galveston…sometimes. That’s what I’ve heard, anyways. 4. Average temperature for the month of December is 53.5ºF, which is still considered “flip-flop weather”. Washington, on the other hand, is 35.4ºF. [...]

Oh, California in the summer…friends, family, cheap Mexican food, shrimp tacos from Rockin’ Baja, margaritas, guacamole and Coronas on the patio, sun… A few photos from my short trip to California last week: Oceanside. Used to spend the entire summer here when I was a kid. Hello, old friend. It’s been awhile Enjoying a double [...]

The smell of surf wax and neoprene. A double-double from In-N-Out. The taste of salt-water. Homemade tortillas at the Old Town Cafe. The sound of crashing waves. Joe’s Crab Shack at Oceanside harbor. Tanned, happy people. Wiping out. Oh, God, I never realized how much I missed all of it until this weekend. I left [...]