tuesday 3 26 13

Well, we're still chasing Spring Northward. Arrived in Northern Virginia with melting snow, flowering crabs and forsythia in bloom. The “cold Spring” is slated to moderate this weekend. It can't happen soon enough for me. We're currently West of DC, so I got to go through the air and Space Museum at Dulles airport. This is where they keep all the goodies that won't fit in the Museum downtown. (several million sq/ft of space....) Pictured is my all time favorite, the SR-71 Blackbird. LA to DC in one hour and one minute....(2,200mph) Also the Discovery shuttle. A real workhorse in her day..In the same hangar they had the last Concorde, an early 707, and the B-29 Enola Gaye. (there's a piece of history for you) plus hundreds of smaller, significant aircraft. I saw lots of things I never knew existed.

We're moving over to College Park MD tomorrow, for the rest of the week, so we can catch the subway and do more of the Smithsonian downtown.