(The East Stone rests in a circular cage and marks the right angle of this Side of the District). I may as well get to Argo, since he is directly responsible for much of the rest of the adventure of The Stones. I confess I kind of ran out of steam on the project. There […]

(The NE3 Stone is concealed within the bushes around this tree at the edge of the commercial parking area to the left.) Based on the directions from the BoundaryStones.org people, I was reasonably confident I could run the table on the remaining monuments of the North East sector. Remember, this was a little more challenging […]

(NE8 is in there someplace. I pussied out and did not dismount to find it. Next time will be easier, with a posse). It was 2003 and I had changed jobs and was working on the SARS epidemic and the Anthrax attacks. The whole thing made people cranky, and I wanted to get back to […]

(No, this isn’t the damn North Cardinal Stone. I was starting to get irritated about the whole thing- that and the NW5 Stone being stuck hundreds of feet behind the stupid fence at the Reservoir. You can forgive me for thinking it was, though, right?) OK: so here is where things get interesting. It’s about […]

(Back yard of the lovely home at 5600 Western Avenue in placid Chevy Chase, MD. The real estate brochure does not mention the presence of a national monument in the front yard). For me, Western Avenue was better known that bright September day as Easy Street. It was a marvelous day to venture up to […]

OK- I was a little rattled. I gave up on the quest for the day after that encounter with bounding Bambi nearly made me jump out of my skin. It was a September weekend, and the pool at my building was still open, four weekend days after Labor Day, so I thought I would motor […]

(Boundary Stone NW5 is in there somewhere. It is down this little hill, behind a fence, next to the reservoir that provides the water to the District. Good Luck.) Having crossed the River, I was on my own. The light was bright but filtered by high cirrus clouds. The temperature was reasonable, and I wore […]

(The NW4 Stone, viewed from the bike trail to the southwest). So, traveling across the Chain Bridge, you enter the modern District of Columbia. I thought it would be more of the same sort of viewing as was true of the Stones in Virginia. Safe, hospitable, plainly marked and accessible. Was I wrong. From the […]

(A view of the Civil War-era Chain Bridge across the Potomac at Georgetown). Gentle Readers, We have arrived at the mighty brown waters of the Potomac River. There is a lot to talk about as we drive over the Chain Bridge and head for the Delcarlia Reservoir, and the Northwest Stones that still form the […]

(Civil War-era scene of one of the old intra-city trains that ran along what is now the Washington & Old Dominion Boulevard and Bike Trail. The terrain is similar to that near the NW2 District Boundary Stone). This is all way too easy, I thought to myself, and one of the reasons I got started […]