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Tourist in My Hometown: Mount Vernon
One of the top items on our bucket list has been to go see the new and improved Mount Vernon. (We’ve been there before, but it was at least ten years ago, before the renovations.) Today was the first...
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Tourist in My Hometown: Route 29 South
My daughter attends the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. So, every few weeks I drive down to bring her home for the weekend. It’s about a five-hour round trip, but I never mind doing it. I...
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Tourist in My Hometown: The C&O Canal
This past weekend, my parents and grandmother (yes, I am lucky to still have one!) came up to visit. We spent some Quality Time working on our new house, but took a break on Sunday for a boat trip on...
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Tourist in My Hometown: What Is It With Men and Battlefields?
As far as we are concerned a lack of huttes, bratwurst and beer is no reason to stop hiking. Special bonus in Virginia: lots of walkable battlefields. Now, I will hike in the pretty countryside,...
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Tourist in My Hometown: Mason Neck and Gunston Hall
Yesterday brought the first cold, windy gust of fall to DC. I was, as usual, a complete wimp about it. Warsaw will be “challenging!” On the other hand, today was one of those sunny, crisp mid-Atlantic...
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Tourist in My Hometown: Manassas Battlefield
Today we weren’t intending to hike a battlefield, but we did anyway. We set the GPS for Bull Run State Park, and ended up turning into a gated utility road. Apparently, Garmin doesn’t know where that...
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Lynchburg: Industrial Chic In The Bible Belt
Foreign Service Institute language training is strict. No time off, not ever. Except when Veteran’s Day falls on a Tuesday, and the teachers want a long weekend, so everyone skedaddles while they can....
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The Ghosts of Appomattox
On an April day in 1865, thousands of Federal troops stood silently at attention along both sides of the Lynchburg-Richmond stagecoach road. Between them walked 28,000 bedraggled Confederate soldiers,...
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Wandering in the Marshes
I love the multitudinous parks in the Washington, DC area. All I have to do is open Google Maps to find somewhere new to explore. Today, we were headed to Alexandria to check out a house and have...
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Fun on the Fourth of July
Yesterday was the Fourth of July, and so we celebrated as many Washingtonians do: by driving in the opposite direction from all the tourists on the Mall! Been there, done that, and anyway, it was...
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