We enjoyed more free museums during our stay.  The museums may be free, but they get you with the cafeteria prices! Very long lineups at the National Air and Space Museum.  This museum has fewer actual airplanes on display than other air museums.  There are lots of informative displays and exhibits about exploration, navigation, telescopes, […]

In 1826, Englishman James Smithson left $500,000 in his will to the US to increase and diffuse knowledge.  This was a strange bequest as he had never visited the US, nor did he have relatives there.  This seed money established the first Smithsonian Museum.  This has now grown to 19 museums, all of which are […]

A visit to the Basilica of the National Shrine of Immaculate Conception, the largest Catholic Church in the US.  It has a large, colourful basilica with lots of mosaics, but is not as fancy as other churches we have seen. The US Capitol Building and the Library of Congress are impressive buildings with lots of marble, gold, […]

We will let the photos speak for themselves.  We have a warm sunny day for the monuments around DC and also take an evening tour.  They look quite different day to night. Our favorite, Korean Memorial Thomas Jefferson Franklin D. Roosevelt Martin Luther King World War II Memorial Lincoln Memorial Washington Monument Vietnam Veterans Memorial […]

Oct. 16-18 A visit to Atlantic City – not so glamorous.  Nice looking casinos, but no real themes like Vegas.  We see Lucy the elephant, which is as big as a building! We drive on to the tip of New Jersey shore to Cape May.  This is a very walkable city with lots of old […]

A white-knuckle driving experience into Jersey City.  Who would believe there is an RV campground within sight of Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty?  It is basically a parking lot with RVs sandwiched in everywhere at $100 a night with water and electric hookups.  There is even some tent camping available on artificial turf. We […]

Oct 8 – Southbound, we head into Rhode Island, stopping in the fancy rich town of Newport.  Lots of tourists, fancy homes, yachts, and genteel neighborhoods.  A trolley tour takes us around the mansions of Newport.  These mansions were the summer cottages of the rich and famous and are now museums open for touring.  As […]

Oct 5 – Salem, Massachusetts, is a very popular town for the month of October.  It really plays up the witch hunt theme.  But first, we have to get there!  We get on the wrong highway heading into downtown Boston and have to backtrack, as the tunnels in this area forbid the transport of propane.  […]

Sept 4 – On to the Bay of Fundy area with its huge tides.  At Digby is the floating marina.  The tide is low so we see boats lying on the ocean floor.  The marina gangplanks are at a steep killer angle down and the boats are very far down against the wharf sides.  Boat […]

Sept 30 and Oct 1 – we find ourselves still in Maine leaf peeping!  We visit Fort Knox built in 1844 to protect the Penobscot River from British attack.  This fort has very thick walls compared to others we visited in Canada.  As well, the fort had 2 shot furnaces where cannonballs were heated red hot […]