I took a few days off from work to visit M and explore DC for the weekend. This is my third time in DC — the last time being two years ago, the first a decade before that — so with the most popular tourist attractions out the way I had the luxury of taking things a little bit more slowly this time around. The weekend ended up being even better than I had expected — fun, jam-packed with good food and activities, and deliciously tiring. The heat from the week prior let up mercifully these...