At Home In The Wasteland Travel Blog

Fort Reno Park, the site of this season’s wiffleball Sundays, has been shutdown by the Feds due to high levels of arsenic found in the soil: Research geographer Dr. Terry Slonecker said he was doing follow-up work on the clean up of World War I-era munitions and chemicals discovered in 1993 in the Spring Valley [...]

PWL photos This past Sunday marked the start of the Potomac Wiffleball League’s spring 2008 season. Because the federal government hates wiffleball, we’ve been forced to move our games to Fort Reno Park near Tenleytown. The location itself isn’t too bad, but I miss Gravelly Point and the planes that fly overhead (not to mention [...]

Tony took a short break from rebuilding the Iraqi Air Force (seriously) to photoshop some signs for a protest (date TBD) in front of the Department of the Interior, where the anti-wiffleball National Park Service is headquartered. Thanks, dude. I think we’ll also need wiffle bats, a drum circle, face paint, bullhorns, and whatever else [...]

Just learned from the PWL Commish that the bureaucrats over at the National Park Service are putting an end to our glorious wiffleball Sundays at Gravelly Point: The formality and lack of a personal nature caused my senses to prepare for bad news immediately. I’d received several notices from the United States Department of the [...]

Straight outta the pages of Sports Illustrated! In honor of today’s rain out (horrible weather in DC?! I’m just shocked!) I have uploaded some photos from our two seasons playing wiffleball with the Potomac Wiffleball League. Most of these are from the League website. Summer 2006 – Ballers for Jesus Even though we only won [...]

The Commish of the Potomac Wiffleball League asked me to do the “6 Innings” (6 innings for wiffleball vs 9 innings for baseball) interview for this week’s issue of “This Week in Wiffleball”. Here’s the result: 6 Innings with Lindsay Fincher Fresh off her birthday before Week 4, which was celebrated with cupcakes in between [...]

We interrupt this regularly scheduled South Caucasus travelogue to tell you that you totally shoulda picked up a copy of the Examiner yesterday from your local news rack. If you didn’t, you missed out on my front page debut showing off my mad wiffleball skillz: Oh yeah, I haven’t mentioned this yet, but I play [...]