I was proud to join my wife, Ashlee, and two of her childhood friends, Dianna and Starling, as well as Startling's husband, John, along with several of their friends in the Women's March on Washington. It's an awesome feeling to know we were part of this historic day in our nation's capital.
Friday, January 20 - We flew up to Washington D.C. today and met up with our friend, Dianna, who flew in from Austin. We drove up to John and Starling's house in nearby Jefferson, Maryland to hang out and make some signs for tomorrow's march and get our game-plan worked out. I grabbed a six-pick for the evening of The Truth double IPA (hoppy and delicious) from Maryland's own Flying Dog Brewery at a gas station on the way.
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| Saturday, January 21, 2017 - With expectations of 250,000 in attendance, the crowd swelled to well over a half-million and what was to be a march became an occupation of a large part of our nation's capital. There was a distinguished list of speakers at the rally before the march including the lovely and eloquent, Scarlett Johannson, giving a very personal account of her life and its affect by Planned Parenthood. |
After the long day at the rally, we rode the subway back toward Starling and John's home near Frederick, Maryland, and had dinner at a BJ's Brewhouse there where I had their very good session double IPA called Committed, along with their acceptable Tatonka imperial stout. Back in our Hampton Inn hotel in Frederick I actually found good craft beer in their snack store (a true miracle) and was able to enjoy an excellent bottle of Bloodline Blood Orange Ale from the local Flying Dog Brewery while watching Duke beat up on Miami on the hardwood.
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| Sunday, January 22, 2017 - With the better part of day to kill before our flights home, Ashlee, Diana and myself, decided to do a quick tour of nearby Baltimore. The Inner Harbor area is very nice and I especially enjoyed checking out the relocated Seven Foot Knoll Lighthouse (even though upstairs access to it was closed today) which was built in 1855 and is the oldest screw-pile lighthouse in Maryland. |
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| Our next stop was the very old and very beautiful Westminster Presbyterian Church Cemetery in downtown Baltimore whose most famous occupant is author/poet Edgar Allen Poe. Such a quiet historic spot in the hustle and bustle of the city. |
Our next two stops had to do with beer....much thanks to Ashlee and Dianna for rewarding me for supporting their cause (which is really everyone's cause, isn't it?) by supporting me in my cause....('cause I wanna drink good beer).
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| Our next stop was the Snake Hill bar in the neat little Highlandtown neighborhood of downtown Baltimore. They have a great beer selection and a cool bar covered in Scrabble pieces. They also have unique sausages of which I had the rattlesnake/rabbit which was tasty. As far as beer goes I had the excellent Creator/Destroyer brown ale from Oliver Brewing here in Baltimore. I followed that up with a Blanche de Chambly witbier from Unibroue Brewing (Quebec). We then moved on a short distance to quench a little seafood craving we were having since we were in a harbor-town to Lee's Pint and Shell. This loud, hip joint had an excellent beer list (and some kick-ass fish tacos). With my meal I had the tasty Union X Ocelot Black IPA from another local producer, Union Craft Brewing. We had a plane delay at BWI which allowed me to nurse a Peg Leg imperial stout from Heavy Seas Brewing (also in Baltimore) at the Silver Diner there in the airport. |
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