Silver Spring
Jul. 16th, 2010 02:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pecuniumMy plan is to leave here on Monday, 19 July, in the early morning bright, and hie me up the road (through the Shenandoah Valley; following the path of "Jackson's Foot Cavalry") up to Silver Spring, Maryland. I'll be staying in Takoma Park (where there is a great music shop ( The House of Musical Traditions), and planning on supper at Mandalay.
It's a Burmese place, so it's new to me.
The fly in the ointment... It's about a ten hour trip for me (about eight on the road, but I have to get gas, eat, etc.). If I don't pack the computer until the morning, I'll be later out the door. I'll look at alternate means of getting it on the bike.
In any case, I won't be on the road earlier than 0700... which means the best I can get in is probably 1630, and 1700 is more like it. I figure I can pretty much be certain of making the restaurant by 1900. I'll shoot for 1830, and try to make an announcement when I get in.
It's a Burmese place, so it's new to me.
The fly in the ointment... It's about a ten hour trip for me (about eight on the road, but I have to get gas, eat, etc.). If I don't pack the computer until the morning, I'll be later out the door. I'll look at alternate means of getting it on the bike.
In any case, I won't be on the road earlier than 0700... which means the best I can get in is probably 1630, and 1700 is more like it. I figure I can pretty much be certain of making the restaurant by 1900. I'll shoot for 1830, and try to make an announcement when I get in.
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Date: 2010-07-16 07:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-16 07:21 pm (UTC)If you can make it to Mandalay... please do.
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Date: 2010-07-19 09:05 pm (UTC)Mandalay in Sliver Spring
Date: 2010-07-16 07:16 pm (UTC)B
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Date: 2010-07-16 08:43 pm (UTC)K.
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Date: 2010-07-17 06:22 am (UTC)The music store has moved, but not very far. It's in a house now, a couple hundred feet from where it used to be.
Hugs —
j
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Date: 2010-07-17 06:52 am (UTC)B
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Date: 2010-07-17 03:45 pm (UTC)Maybe next time y'all are in this area we can cruise by. There are pleasant food places in that neighborhood as well, though nothing truly extreme.
Cheers —
jon
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Date: 2010-07-18 06:44 pm (UTC)B
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Date: 2010-07-17 06:21 am (UTC)Cheers —
jon
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Date: 2010-07-16 07:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-17 06:53 am (UTC)B
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Date: 2010-07-17 03:49 pm (UTC)(Next time you find yourself or yourselves in Philadelphia, you may want to try Rangoon, at 112 North 9th Street. Very pleasant, though there is a lot more Chinese influence showing in the menu than you'll see at Mandalay. OTOH, they have the fresh tofu salad, for which they make the tofu themselves out of tiny channa [or maybe yellow dhal, I forget] instead of soybeans, and it truly rocks. Amazing dressing on it...)
Cheers —
j
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Date: 2010-07-18 06:45 pm (UTC)It wasn't, but I got there from Thailand. I'm still amazed at my pictures from Pagan.
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Date: 2010-07-18 04:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-18 06:42 pm (UTC)B
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Date: 2010-07-16 09:55 pm (UTC)Still, enjoy.
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Date: 2010-07-16 09:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-17 06:24 am (UTC)Just wanted to say that you are absolutely right about Mandalay, and that I like the speedwell you are using as your userpic. (Also that you are correct about the ginger salad. Have you tried the fermented tealeaf salad or the jasmine rice salad?)
Cheers —
jon
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Date: 2010-07-17 02:52 pm (UTC)I hadn't tried any of the other salads; now they are both in The List.
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Date: 2010-07-17 03:40 pm (UTC)I s'pose someone could select V. persica for flower-garden use, as I see quite a bit of variation in color and flower size. There are patches down in DC with flowers almost half an inch across.
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The jasmine rice salad is big and (no surprise) full of rice, so it's almost the equivalent of a main dish, in terms of amount of food. Just so you know.
Best —
jon
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Date: 2010-07-19 08:11 pm (UTC)Cheers —
jon
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Date: 2010-07-16 10:07 pm (UTC)See you then!
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Date: 2010-07-17 06:24 am (UTC)With any luck at all, I will see you on Monday evening.
Cheers —
jon
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Date: 2010-07-17 12:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-17 03:22 pm (UTC)So many people who can't quite make it.
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Date: 2010-07-17 03:50 pm (UTC)Yo...
jo
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Date: 2010-07-17 04:04 pm (UTC)It's tempting, really tempting, but I don't think I can do it.
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Date: 2010-07-19 08:12 pm (UTC)jon
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