Sometimes it makes sense for me to ramble on as I recap a travel experiences and other times I have pictures that will do a much better job.  Also since this is a post holiday Monday, I suspect that most people could do without excessive reading today.

On the second day of our visit to Baltimore, The Wife and I took the train down to Washington D.C. to stroll around a bit and meet up with my good friend, Mr. Wilson.  The day after that, Mr. Wilson took a train up to Baltimore to keep me company (a.k.a. bar hop with me) while The Wife was in her conference all day.  That pretty much explains the string of pictures below.

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Union Station has some beautiful spaces

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A different view of The Capitol

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Not bad for behind thick glass

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Stopped for a moment to smell the flowers

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Finally some shade for a moment

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Head just inside the door and go to your right . . .

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and bring your reading glasses for the beer list!

I must pause to make a more prominent mention of The Brickskeller, where we stopped in D.C. for lunch (and beer).  Having a list of 1000 bottles of beer to choose from can be a very difficult situation.  Usually I gravitate towards the draft list, which will narrow my selection down a bit before I really put any effort into a decision.  I did not have that option, so that day I focused on American breweries.  I do enjoy beer from many other places, but there is so much good craft beer in the United States to choose from that I have much work to do just to try half of it.  So after that, I looked for breweries that I don’t see here in Florida.  It just so happened that I landed at what was actually the first beer on the list and a 21st Amendment Brew Free or Die.  It was a pretty IPA heavy weekend all in all.

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21st Amendment - Brew Free or Die

How would you tackle such a big list of beer options?

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Mr. Wilson come to Baltimore via Penn Station

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Keeping me company at Koopers

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I do love me some good beer in a can.

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How sad . . . no really.

There are so many more pictures to get to.  Maybe I will give Baltimore and D.C. another feature sometime soon.

Until then . . .

Since we did a fair bit of running around last week with Cousin Adam and Melissa here, I have quite a few pictures from (most of) the places that we visited and a few from after they flew back home.  With that, I think more of a pictorial recap is the way to go today rather than many paragraphs of text to go through on a FAT Monday.  So, lets see if I can remember where all of these pictures were taken . . .

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Heavenly truffle popcorn with parmesan

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Sweetbreads with gnocchi

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Beef shortrib ravioli

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A short stop by Orlando Brewing to try the goods.

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A bit of window shopping in Daytona.

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This one was a bit different.

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Available in all sizes.

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Stopping by the speedway before the crowds arrive.

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Soon to be filled.

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Soon to be littered with trash.

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Taking in some nature.

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Another visit to see our manatee friends.

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The rains kept us inside at Redlight Redlight

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Passing the time with a Brooklyn Cookie Jar Porter and board games before friends arrive.

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Enjoying a Saturday afternoon with a good friend.

Surely there are a few stops along the way that didn’t make it into today’s post, but we do occasionally give the camera a rest during our travels.  Looking back, there are a few pictures that I wish were taken, but that only means that a return visit is in order!

I do love reading through the beer news, but I don’t like that I ended up with two stories that involves actual or potential beer shortages.  That is a bit of a downer, so I made sure to add in two positive stories as well.  Again this week part of what made the final cut for today’s news came via messages from others, which is always accepted and greatly appreciated.  Now on to the stories for today . . .

  • Here is another update on the Anheuser-Busch InBev situation overseas.  Beer shortages have already tapped the supplies of smaller shops and supermarkets are soon to run out as well.
  • There is a bit of a brew-ha-ha going on in Ontario that may result in beer being pulled from the shelves.
  • A new Winter Beer Festival coming up in Atlanta.  Certainly would be interesting and worth attending if you are going to be in the area.
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