What I did last weekend

Midterms are coming up, so we thought we'd spend last weekend touring the state of Virginia, going out on the road to meet 'Real America' as they say.

On Saturday we voyaged to the East of the state, which contains the main tourism areas of Norfolk, Newport News and Virginia Beach. But the really interesting thing was the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, which at 37kms in length is the 4th largest in the world! Instead of photos of this amazing engineering feet, I've posted a photo of Luc, Anna, Glenn and I at Cape Charles. Lovely place. Its like a photo straight out of 'friends'.

On Sunday we header West to the Shenandoah National Park. Did a little bit of climbing, got some great photos and then drove to Mount Vernon. Mount Vernon is the home of George Washington, of 'Washington DC' fame. Interesting factoid- During the Civil War, they kicked everyone out and had a single women move in. The fact that a women lived there meant it couldn't be attacked by either side, so the house survived.