Silver Spring

[pecunium]

My 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.

Comments

[jonsinger.livejournal.com]

Zow. 20 years ago, IIRC, it was not at all easy to go to Myanmar. I trust, in any case, that you ate interesting things wherever you were.

(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 —
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[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

"20 years ago, IIRC, it was not at all easy to go to Myanmar."

It wasn't, but I got there from Thailand. I'm still amazed at my pictures from Pagan.

B