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Coffeeneuring Ride #8: Cleveland Park Library<\/a> (4340 Connecticut Ave., N.W.) and Baked by Yael<\/a> (3000 Connecticut Ave., N.W.)<\/p>\n

\"Baked<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Sunday, Nov. 19; 3.3 miles<\/p>\n

Hot chocolate, everything bagel, raspberry cake pop <\/p>\n

This wasn’t supposed to be my final Coffeeneuring ride. I had planned to go to the Anacostia Branch and the DCAC Cafe, but I needed to return a purchase to Politics & Prose and they didn’t want me to take a Chevy Chase purchase back to their new Waterfront store. I decided the expedient answer was to alter my route, hop a bus up to the bookstore and then take Bikeshare back via the Cleveland Park interim branch and the construction project.<\/p>\n

Cleveland Park was the first branch I visited after moving to D.C. We’d come down just after a blizzard, Verizon couldn’t get their act together to give us phone service, I hadn’t wanted to move and was homesick, and the clear answer was to get me out of the apartment as soon as the city was open once more by getting me a library card. <\/p>\n

\"Cleveland<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

The library closed for serious renovations last fall and isn’t slated to reopen until next year.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, this is what D.C. does for temporary spaces:<\/p>\n

\"Cleveland<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

They rent street-level store fronts and turn them into libraries for the short-term.<\/p>\n

\"Cleveland<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

I pedaled south on Connecticut Avenue, unsure of where I’d stop for a drink. I’d originally planned on going to my garden, but I was open to pausing elsewhere. Then, as I reached the zoo, I remembered that one of the little stores up there was a cake pop bakery and they had a sandwich board out advertising hot chocolate spoons. I didn’t know what that was, but I was intrigued. And since there’s a dock right there, it seemed fated.<\/p>\n

\"Cake<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Turns out, I knew what it was after all. It’s where they’ve solidified chocolate around a stick or spoon and you use that to stir hot milk to create your own cocoa. It’s a fine idea, but either they didn’t get the milk hot enough or doing it in a trashable cup cools off too fast, because mostly it was lukewarm by the time the chocolate finally dissolved off the tongue depresser. <\/p>\n

\"Cocoa<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

They also make their own bagels at the shop, so I had an everything bagel as a late lunch and followed it up with a raspberry cake pop. I’d suspected I didn’t really care for cake pops and I think that’s still true. They need to be ultra-moist to work in this format and that’s not really how I like my cake. But it was a fun thing to try and I’m glad I gave it a shot. Plus, the bakery is just such a cute place!<\/p>\n

\"Baked<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

I stayed too long reading, so didn’t make it to the garden, but I decided it was fine to just head home, having finished my final Coffeeneuring ride.<\/p>\n

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Total miles:<\/strong> 60.3, which is in keeping with my Coffeeneuring averages.<\/p>\n

Theme-within-a-theme:<\/strong> D.C.’s branch libraries. I hit 8 libraries, half of which were new to me. I covered six of the District’s 8 wards, having been sidelined from covering those last two (5 & 8) by a bad cold during the penultimate week of Coffeeneuring. However, this has been so much fun that I’ve decided I’ll probably keep visiting branch libraries and sharing them here. Whether I bike to them all remains to be seen, but keep your eyes peeled for this weekend’s post on the reopening of the West End library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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