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There are a few of my finds that may be doubled, especially now. I thought I did them because they said ”national park”, but couldn’t find them on the map or on my list (maybe I didn’t write them down because I wasn’t sure at the time). Like I thought I’d done Roosevelt Island and the one in Anacostia, so I’m doing them again and getting the right number associated on my ride title. Sorry to make you check!

I see where  Freezing Saddles forum or whatever is counting my finds and I’d check for doubles myself, but I can’t figure out how you’re doing that. Sorry – all I see is the total count and no way to expand the count to check.

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March 12 – Shop (coffee). Needs to be a place that is primarily a coffee shop (not a shop that happens to sell coffee).

I don’t know wth happened to my new bingo card. I think I hit the back button at the bottom of the page and now the new one is GONE 🧐

Compass Coffee

435 11th St NW, Washington, DC 20004

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3/12/2025
MANGO
my favorite tropical fruit. Yum!

 

MANGO – Upscale Womanswear
950 F St NW, Washington, DC 20004

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3/11 – Track

These curvy trolley tracks always scare me. I like trolleys (even though these aren’t active), but I don’t like falling and these could have been made safer imo.

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3/10 -Spite

• Interesting. I wonder it this is narrower than the old DC house I live in. Mine’s about 11’ wide.

The Hollensbury Spite House is a spite house located at 523 Queen Street in Alexandria, Virginia. The narrow building measures 7-feet 6-inches (2.3 m) wide and is often called the skinniest house in the United States. The house has drawn international attention, being covered by numerous news outlets, and was once featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show. It is frequently visited by tourists who often pose in front of the building and is also included on local history tours. The house is 350 square-feet (32.5 sq m) but also includes an outdoor patio and garden, providing additional entertaining space. Because of its narrow front door and small interior space, the house is decorated with smaller furniture pieces and antiques.

Hollensbury Spite House
Address
523 Queen Street
Town or city
Alexandria, Virginia

38°48′25.9″N77°2′42.3″W
Completed
1830

The building’s namesake, John Hollensbury, reportedly built the house in 1830 to stop people loitering in the alley adjoining his house and to prevent wagon-wheel hubs from damaging the house’s exterior walls. This is the most commonly known story as to why the house was built, but there are also two other possibilities, the first being due to a dispute with his neighbor, and the second as a gift to his two daughters. Whichever story is true, the scenario involving a man who built a home out of spite is the one that has made the Hollensbury Spite House a local landmark. It is one of four spite houses in Alexandria, the others being built in the 1800s as well.

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I’m going to fight back by getting my own BLM sign! Everyone in the city should! And Pride signs. Europe signs. Whatever.

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3/9/2025
GREED

Self-explanatory

interesting that it’s all dark

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3/8/2025 Navel, the navel of Observatory Circle NW is The United States Naval Observatory Astronomical Complex providing the true time.

navel
noun
na· vel ˈnā-vəl

Synonyms of navel
1
: a depression in the middle of the abdomen that marks the point of former attachment of the umbilical cord or yolk stalk

2
: the central point : MIDDLE
In Delphi’s golden age, when the ancients held it to

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JFK at Kennedy Center 4/7/25

I was hit by an SUV tonight (mostly okay) and my ride was cut short. Therefore I think I just missed the ten mile minimum. 😔

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3/7/2025
TROOP

Honoring the TROOP(S) of the First Infantry Division Monument

17th St NW & E Street NW, Washington, DC 20634

Definition: “A group of soldiers, especially those who fight on horseback or in military vehicles”

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3/6/25 Xmas Lights

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3/6/2025
ALERT

I got this ALERT and another about wind, on my Garmin, twice on tonight’s ride. Once at the beginning and another about 4 miles from home, thus I chose to ride WITH the wind to BRANCH AVENUE and then home from FORT TOTTEN. When you’re very tired, a tailwind is nice!

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I’d kinda like to tie those people up in the middle of the bike lane like Snidely Whiplash. 😈

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3/5/25
SCRUM – track intervals? Greenbelt Races?

Not a term I’ve yet heard applied to running intervals or peloton races in criteriums, but I think we COULD apply the term. It can be sports and workplace related and either chaotic, tight, struggling groups or more strictly planned according to time and distance.

A training race like Greenbelt definitely can feel on the chaotic side at times and other times very smooth and well-planned, perhaps with the higher category racers or runners.

From now on I’m going to ask fellow riders and runners if they’d like to go out for a little scrum or fartlek!

From some internet definition:

* Scrum teams use events like sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review, and sprint retrospectives o

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And yet, the one I stopped at has a 5 STAR rating from over 1500 people. Why? I could see using one if you don’t have a bank in town yet, but . . . Why so popular, DCAKen?

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