The National Mall & Memorial Parks – Washington, DC – Part 2
As mentioned in the previous post, the National Park Service (NPS) maintains the National Mall and Memorial Parks in Washington, DC. Admission is free except for the elevator ride to…
The National Mall and Memorial Parks – Washington DC – Part 1
We desperately needed a spring break trip in 2021. The pandemic kept us home for spring break 2020 and symbolically, I couldn't let this ruin this year's spring break. We…
Lots of tours that day
College Visit Trip to the Mid-Atlantic Region
We did our first college visit trip to the Mid-Atlantic region over our spring break. What made it so flexible was that we drove. Yes – it was long, but we covered a lot of ground. Below is our itinerary with links to the places we visited. For details about visiting New York – see my post https://findingfamilyadventures.com/2016/03/27/trip-report-new-york-city/. This will give you links to more posts I wrote about NYC in 2016. (more…)
Washington DC & Virginia Itinerary (Including Shenandoah National Park)
In 2013, our vacation plans called for a week-long trip to Washington DC and Virginia as soon as school ended in May. In retrospect, we should have waited a few days. After picking up our kids directly from school on their last day, we stopped in Charlotte to have dinner with some friends and then drove as far as Durham, NC that night. Colonial Williamsburg was crowded when we arrived around 11:30 the next day (which also happened to be the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend). By the time we got to DC on Sunday afternoon, everyone was tired and cranky. We learned a very valuable lesson – give our kids at least a day or two to unwind from the school year before going on a week-long trip! (more…)