We took the weekend driving up to Boston and after spending a little time there, there are a few things I need to hunt down in DC.

1) Ramen. No, not the cheap kind most college students lived on but authentic Japanese ramen. We went to eat at Ken's Ramen Noodle House in Boston and I am hooked. After looking up on yelp.com and chowhound.com I've come across a few leads that I'll have to investigate further upon.

2) A place that serves moderately priced lobster rolls. This might be a pipe dream since we're not that abundant on the lobsters like they are up in New England, and I know Legal Seafoods has one since I had one of those at their Test Kitchen in S. Boston.

I realized though that these goals are too food-centric, and well, maybe its also time to start expanding the list of hobbies because most of the time we spent not eating was walking off what we ate. Which isn't a bad thing because we got to take in a lot of the city sights and walk & talk with friends but it made me also realize that I don't have a lot of concrete go-to things I want/need to do on a regular basis besides veg out on the net and do house chores. Some people travel to golf or visit museums and most of the time, we travel to eat. Which I guess is a good component, but I think I'm slowly turning into my parents because they plan their vacations around what and where they can eat and I'm not comfortable with that.

What is contradictory is I also want to start visiting more Bed & Breakfast places since we had a enjoyable time stopping by Gettybsurg for an evening and we stayed at the Brick House Inn. No we were not there for the KKK event, but just to take in the local flavor (yes, more eating) and also to just relax and hang out. It was fun, and I wouldn't mind doing that again. Makes me think of the movie, Flirting with Disaster, where they stayed at the B&B that were accused of not being "B&B people!"

This must be the slippery slope of becoming an old fart when I actually seek out and enjoy just going to a place for some peace and quiet.