Lisa’s family has made a tradition lately of camping for a week each year. This year’s adventure was to Westport Bearch near Fort Bragg, California. With us were the Rusts, Normans and Wassermanns. We took our Vistabule teardrop, Green Bean.

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Great spring break day with Lisa and the kids today: spelunking at California Caverns, then a short hike at Big Trees followed up with a good meal and great beer at Snowshoe Brewery in Arnold. Whew!

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We have one more day in the Big Apple, then we’ll see our first Broadway play with Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick (It’s Only a Play,) and fly home tomorrow.

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Emily has been a fan of Matthew Broderick for as long as I can remember. On the drive to NY she tweeted that her type was Matthew Broderick… And then this happened.

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On Facebook my pizza-lovingest friends, Vincent Gee and Joe Buckley immediately began drilling me on the quality. We decided that it was very good-VERY good- but perhaps not the best pizza on the planet. It was only a few ingredients (dough, cheese, spices and a sauce) but they were

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Neighbor, Mark Standley commented, “I remember circling the block a jillion times near Grand Central Station before anyone would let us change enough lanes to park in front of the hotel…that’s why you walk in Manhattan.”

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I wouldn’t have missed this. Despite the cold and rain, we took our rental car to our last stop in D.C., Arlington National Cemetery. It was a somber experience visiting the grave of President Kennedy and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The cracks of

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Look who we ran into! Actually, Lisa’s cousin, James Friel drove down from Delaware just to have dinner with us and hang out for a bit. It’s always great to see family, and Jimmy never disappoints as far as company goes.

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We braved inclement weather in DC again to do the things that tourists do. Today that meant touring the White House. The first-family was in Hawaii, so that meant rolling back the carpets and creating NSF files for 400 tourists an hour. Emily sprinted through the tour, bored to death, pouting the whole way. Let’s not forget that she was scolded by Secret Service for sitting on an antique chair. Then she posed for nearly 20 selfies on the exit to the east lawn, smiling as if it was the highlight of her trip.

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It’s never too cold for a nice mandarin vodka & cran. After our full day in DC at nearly freezing temperatures, we ducked into the first heated restaurant we could find. No, not some DC dive, a national chain known as The Hardrock Cafe. Now time to let the extremities thaw out.

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