Studio Plus Columbia - Gateway Drive

... my belt at this point is about half the distance of the United States on my way to Washington DC where I pick up my flight to Rio de Janeiro. I wonder what this trip would have been like to do by car/boat/train as opposed to flying everywhere. I truly love to fly and I am not sure that I could have that much patience for traveling around the globe but it would make the pace more leisurely, allowing me to stop off at some beautiful places within the USA that I have not yet seen. Dad and ...

When it was first suggested that I go to the Newseum in DC, I initially balked at the idea of paying a $20 entrance fee to tour a museum when there are plenty of free museums in the area to explore; however I am glad that I did go. Appropriately, the museum is located at the site of the old National Hotel, where Booth stayed before he assassinated Lincoln. At the lower level concourse, the museum provides a short 10 minute orientation film called "What's ...

... we walked with stiff frozen toes back to our hotel (31st street) - not an easy walk with thousands of people, taxi cabs, police cars and frozen toes. After a night of defrosting limbs and much needed sleep, we set of on the subway to Brooklyn Bridge prepared for a hiking adventure. We made our way across the Historic landmark enjoying the beautiful city landscapes that the view presented us with. After which we set off in search of a maccas with ...

... before. Pictures of families and graduates and weddings and happy carefree times. As I stood looking at these beautiful faces, my mind replaced them with the faces of every Jewish person I know and tears ran down my cheeks. I spent a lot of time in the last 2 exhibits where the survivors tell their stories on audio and video. I felt such deep respect and thought the least I could do was to hear their stories. We four ...

... York, making her room available. I contacted them in early September, and because one of the girls was going out of town in mid-September, I rushed out to Boulder (for the THIRD time in a month and a half!!!) to meet them and see if this would work. We had a great time together and it looked like moving in and taking over the fourth room on the lease was going to work out great! Unfortunately, the following morning they were contacted by a friend of all ...

Washington DC was the first stop of our East Coast baseball vacation. I lived just south of DC in Quantico, VA while in the Marine Corps so I'm very familiar with the area. My kids and I started with the typical sight seeing of DC. We parked close to the Lincoln Memorial ...

... and Larry found some gauze pads and water-proof bandages, and I bandaged my knee (NOT well) and we headed south. I ungracefully kept my foot up on the dashboard and the bleeding seemed to stop. Okay, wanna get some lunch? We stopped at a Wendy's and got burgers and by the time we'd finished lunch, blood had filled my waterproof bandage to the point it was leaking out and blood was once again running down my leg. I decided this was not good. I ...

... images from the genocide in Darfur, Sudan. Music plays along. It's a fitting cause. I wonder how much war history I'll be able absorb on my trip. I wonder . . . Tomorrow is church and walk on the Chesapeak and Ohio Canal, way south of where Anna and Garrett and I walked our last miles together on the AT cruising in to Harpers Ferry, WV. And then it's early to bed and off to National Airport. ok. I'm really ready. whew.

... that this personal time together was far more important than any party. After arriving we walked up to Bob and Rita's house to get our parked car. A sign on one of the lawns amused us. It showed a gardener bending over with the caption, "I'll show you wind power!!" We had planned on thanking them and saying goodbye, but we found a note saying they had to go out. The drive back to the "Other Cape", Cape Ann went without problem except for a little delay (nothing to ...

... American, Rocky ran up, we visited New York to see famous buildings like the Playboy Bunny House, and we went to Washington DC to traverse the Mall, which they had trouble understanding wasn't a shopping mall. What may have been even more fun however, was taking them out for Halloween and having them be a part of our Homecoming parade. It was always exciting to see them experience something American that they had seen in the movies ...