For our last dinner in Charlottesville we resisted a repeat visit to Miyako (barely) to knock another new restaurant off our list. Zocalo was described as Mexican, but also had touches of Cuban and Spanish. I started with the gazpacho with crabmeat in the middle and Lloyd got the spinach salad with fried oysters.They were both delicious, but Lloyd won that round.Then we split the chili-dusted scallops, which were unique sweet, spicy, rich, and completely gone in about 10 minutes.

Today were driving back up to D.C. where well be parting ways for about five weeks.Im going back to our Hawaii homestead and Lloyd is going to California for pre-deployment training.We found out recently that hes officially going to Afghanistan in November for seven months.Itll be a big change and well miss each other terribly, but hes energized by the opportunity and I have great friends and family to keep me company.