On my recent trip to Washington, DC, I didn’t actually stay in the District (as Washington is called by locals). I was staying with friends in Reston, Virginia, about an hour outside of the main parts of DC via Metro. So on my final day, with an evening flight out of Dulles International Airport, and…
Sometimes, travelers are lucky in weather. I've had perfectly blue skies at Crater Lake in Oregon in a single week between snow storms, had the rain let up in Amsterdam just as I arrived, and had a storm abate just long enough to visit the ruins at Ephesus before it came back in. Other times,…
I'm not leaving for a week, but timing of other posts mandates that this one go up a tad early. In any event, it is time for my annual driving trip with my father, and I am - as always - excited! This year we are headed to coal country to see the fall colors,…