Families flock to Alexandria’s Dyke Marsh for a little biological bonding. Sunlight brings out the wild green of the grass and trees, making you forget (for a second) that you’re a glance away from the most powerful place on Earth. Bugs crawl over stumps, kids swing orange plastic bats at oversized balls thrown by fathers […]
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On walking
If there’s one thing I could wish for my inevitable old age, it’s that we never stop walking. A family friend in Kharkov has parents who are now in their mid ’90s, and they leave the house at 8am every single day to walk around a local park until 11am. I want to be just […]
Really, Virginia?
Someone must have gotten the wrong kind of sticker and used it anyway for the hell of it. Hope you can read backwards, people who need an automatic door! Then again, the rest stop made up for it with one of the nicest travel picnic areas I’ve ever seen.