The
Return
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- Leaving Virginia Beach
- Touring Washington DC
- Catching our return flight
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| Once our silver Pontiac was loaded, we headed north through the Tidewater traffic, on our way to Washington DC. |
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The Washington Monument was being restored.
A repair structure completely surrounded it. |
| When we found more repair work being done at the Jefferson Memorial, we decided not to stay any longer in DC.
Even though it was only the middle of the afternoon, traffic on the way to Baltimore kept slowing almost to a stop.
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We spent the night near the airport and got up at 4AM.
It was a cloudy morning.
The pilot lined our plane up on Runway 8 and waited for a moment.
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| For the benefit of non-believers, the attendant demonstrated what was going to happen: the pilot would give it the gas and WOOOSH - our plane would climb into the sky.
Not to worry.
Just sit back and relax.
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She was right!
We were soon soaring westward.
Gliding across the sky.
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| Patterns in the clouds below kept looking like the rippled sand we'd seen on our walks along the beach.
By the time we landed, the clouds and ocean were far behind us.
But in our mind -- and in these pictures -- we brought our Eastern friends home with us.
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