After all of those museums I think I’m ready for a break for a while. Today I left Virginia and went down to the capitol in Raleigh, NC. It was a really pretty drive down there. It was dark when I got there so I didn’t really hang out long. I just went to the […]
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After the Army and Navy museums yesterday I looked up if there was a Navy museum too. It ends up that there is a National Museum of the US Navy in Washington DC too. I was lucky and it happened to be the only day that the museum is open. This one wasn’t nearly as […]
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I finally got to go to the museum that I’ve been trying to for the last week, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. When I got here the place was almost empty, it was great. Right as you walk in they have a Blackbird front and center. To […]
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Today I went to Richmond, VA to see the capitol and walk around some of downtown. The capitol grounds were pretty. I walked around a circle of a couple blocks around the capitol building to see the White House of the Confederacy. They a section of the drive shaft from the Iron-Clad ship Virginia (Merrimac) […]
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Today is another museum day, but it started by crossing one of the longest bridges in the country, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge/Tunnel. It’s 17.6 miles long with 12 miles of bridges and two mile long tunnels. There is so much water it looks like you are driving over the ocean. I stopped at the Virginia […]
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This morning I got up early to go to the Udvar-Hazy Center, the good Smithsonian air and space museum, and when I got there the parking lot was packed. I got a spot and started walking toward the line. As I get close, all I see are dressed up families in line for a half […]
Read moreThe great van fixing of 2024 continues. I thought they had everything fixed after the last time I had it in the shop, but two nights ago all of the same lights, warnings, and systems came on. I pulled into a grocery store parking lot and I was about two miles away from a Midas. […]
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I went to Washington D.C. today. I started by going to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. This time they had more of the museum open, but the hangers were still closed for renovations. They still had the same space stuff and they had the commercial airline area and the speed records area open. […]
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I drove to Harrisburg, PA today to visit the capitol and then drove to East Earl, PA for lunch. I went to Shady Maple Smorgasbord for lunch. This is the largest buffet in the country. When I pulled into the parking lot there were dozens of cars and busses. I got inside and the lines […]
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