we started out on a friday afternoon with a stop at the brandywine museum in chadds ford.
this is just the time of year to fantasize about living in a wyeth painting...and ben managed to do just that!
afterwards, we drove to the adorable town of new castle delaware to the fine press festival at oak knoll books. we got some deals (a seminal handpress book we were looking for at fifty percent off!) and some steals (when ben asked how much a beautiful broadside was, the man from the press that had produced it asked us to return at the end of the evening, and he gave it to us for free!)
then it was a late-night drive out to a doubletree hotel near dulles airport in virginia. we ate chinese room service in bed while watching "the simpsons".
on saturday, to kill time, we drove into baltimore and had breakfast at the diner where the film diner was filmed. (a few other movies were shot there, too, most of them barry levinson films, natch.)
unphotographable moments included: making a wrong turn down a road that led to a CIA "materials processing facility", and having to lift a box turtle out of the road; and peeking into a tattoo parlor in the quickie-marriage-berg of elkton, maryland, to see a man under the ink gun for what had to have been a weekly appointment.