Staunton’s Frontier Culture Museum

by | 6 Oct 2011 | Travel, US Travel

Staunton’s Frontier Culture Museum is a tribute to the first colonial Virginia settlers and is organized on a circular trail with tiny houses / villages representing different colonial era settlers. In the words of the museum’s website, “To tell the...

Luray Caverns and Skyline Drive

by | 30 Jul 2011 | Travel, US Travel

Growing up in Northern VA, I have many memories of trips to Luray Caverns… I’ve probably been there between 7 to 10 times, but not since maybe 1990. I was really excited last weekend when my wife and I were trying to think of things to do and she mentioned...

George Washington Birthplace

by | 30 May 2011 | Travel, US Travel

As I prepared to write this blog post, I realized that my father has pretty much lived and worked in all the same places as George Washington, only in opposite order. While a soldier stationed at Ft. Belvoir in the mid-1970s, he lived just a few miles from Mount...