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I've recently begun completely subjectively reviewing the restaurants and bars in Atlanta that I've enjoyed recently.

Habanero glazed buffalo & SBR grilled wings

12 days ago

So good.

A walk in the woods

42 days ago

We drove up to the Great Smoky Mountains and did a 3-day, 40 mile hike through the wilderness.  It hailed, it rained, the sun shined, and I had a TIL that turkeys can actually fly through the air.

The beginning of the trail at the end of the Smokies

The first descent we had into the valley, heading to the campsite

The low areas – near streams and what not – were actually the more scenic

That chair.  That chair can die in a fire, and the rest of its chair family

Bandanas are super fly

We’ll see you again.  Only 2,076 miles left.

day before dst

68 days ago

popovers

100 days ago

We had these during dinner at BLT on our trip to NY as an appetizer.  They then give you the recipe for them as part of your receipt, so we thought we’d try our hand at making them.

Light and puffy and completely delicious.  The popover pan, as we soon discovered, is actually quite vital to getting them to pop, well, over.

5 days of mass transit

157 days ago

Went to NY for the first time, for no other reason than Delta had tickets for cheap.  Money well spent.

From battery park

That’s the World Trade Center in the back, with people selling 9/11 and FDNY merchandise in front.  There’s some kind of poignant, critical, somber point on society I’m supposed to make here, but I don’t know what it would be.

Yep, thats us. It was cold.

I don’t know what these are for.

This is apparently where Law & Order takes place.

We visited a pretty cool bar, called Swift

Bokeh!

The drinks were delicious though.

Then we visited the Museum of Modern Art.

Then our final evening, thanks to Dave, we got a night at the Waldorf Astoria.  It was pretty nice.  The breakfast buffet was a reasonable $95 per person.

All in all it was an awesome vacation.  We ate a ton of pizza, bagels, and cheesecake… but on the other hand, we walked about 27 miles, so they offset I think.

A dead tree and 800 lights

173 days ago

I think this is the first time I’ve bought a Christmas tree myself.  I wonder how far away people can see it from.

Testing out the lights beforehand

We appear to have put more lights in the middle.

Now in Technicolor

Bokeh

the cars, they go fast

230 days ago

The 2011 Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta

Pit lane

Up close

This might be a Ferrari

Thumbs up

Oh its completely stock

The other Ferrari

Time to go home

This was my first trip to Road Atlanta.  I brought a camera, and earplugs.  Things to bring next time:

- Beer

- A cooler to put the beer in

- A tent to put the cooler in

- A trailer to transport the tent and cooler

- And a golf cart.  My calves are killing me.