After Delaware, I kept crawling south. I have a few friends in the DC area, and was very happy to visit with them when they were available, as well as visiting the Spy Museum and part of the Smithsonian!
I have a few thoughts from my visit to the Library of Congress, but that'll have to wait until I have brainpower. For now, highlights from October 30th-ish up to Thanksgiving!
- Spy Museum was doing a "50 years of Bond villains" exhibit! Fun fun fun.
- Halloween in Georgetown. Pub food, beer, and people-watching!
- Driving up to Hagerstown, Maryland to see some friends, with another friend from DC
- Stopping at Harpers Ferry on the way back down to the DC/Richmond area. Absolutely gorgeous day. Pictures to be posted soon!
- Stopping in Winston-Salem, North Carolina to walk around the old city, and having the best beer-cheese soup of my life (sorry, Wisconsin).
- Coming back up through West Virginia and back into Ohio. Driving out to Bowling Green to pick up a friend for another Dagorhir event in the Akron area (Pentwyvern Harvest Feast).
- Wonderful weekend with friends and silliness and fun. It's been really amazing getting to go to all of these events that I usually miss because of distance and school.
- Starting down south, from Ohio to Kentucky. Passing field after field of horses and pasture. Did not go to the races. Next time!
- Tennessee!! Nashville was all right (I stopped to see Thor 2 and find some live music) but Memphis was amazing. Graceland tour, beautiful weather, and BB King's Blues Club on Beale St. on a Friday night. Ribs and the All-Star band, and then bar-hopping all the way back to the hotel. Six bands all told, hundreds of people just out enjoying their night and the music.
- Vicksburg, Mississippi. The "key" to the South, during the Civil War. Beautiful area, fun museums.
- Driving out through Alabama and Georgia back to the coast on the highway the Freedom Fighters used
- Heading down the coast, from Jacksonville to Miami in one day. Amazing drive. Not nearly as boring or tiring as I'd thought it would be!
- Miami. Mmmm, Miami. Not nearly as sunny as Burn Notice says (figures) but just as beautiful. Torrential storm the night I got in, which was gone by morning.
- Watched the sun rise on the Atlantic and set on the Gulf, after driving through the Everglades.
- Spent a few days in Nokomis, halfway up the Gulf coast, relaxing. That's the town the Lawrence University Swimming and Diving Team (affectionately known as LUST) uses as base for a week every winter, so I actually know the area fairly well for vacationing. Tons of beach time, tons of pool time, tons of sun and surf, and the Doctor Who special. What more could a girl ask for?
And that takes me up to 26 November 2013, just before Thanksgiving. Next update will include some accounting of northern Florida, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Indiana, and oh look Ohio and Pennsylvania AGAIN.
No longer from a Starbucks,
Julia
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