What I Did On My Vacation
June 6, 2007, 12:14pm
You may have noticed that blogging has been light. That’s because Congress was in recess the week of Memorial Day, so I took a vacation, posting few entries here and none at my other blog, Beltway Blogroll.
But I just couldn’t break the addiction entirely. In fact, I built an entirely new blog.
This one is of a personal nature — it features plenty of pictures of my wife, Kimberly, and our kids — but has a political/historical twist that AirCongress readers may appreciate. Kimberly and I recently decided to go on a mission by visiting the homes U.S. presidents.
We’re doing it both for fun (to the parents anyway, as I collect presidential biographies and Kimberly loves gardens and homes) and educational value (to our home-schooled children). I thought our travels might serve as a useful and free Internet guide to presidential homes, so I decided to blog about them at U.S. Presidential Homes. Additional photos also are available at Flickr.
Our first stop, appropriately, was at Mount Vernon, the home of the nation’s first president, George Washington. Several of the presidential homes are just a day trip away from us, so we plan to visit those as soon as possible. And I’m personally looking forward most to a trip to the Midwest for tours of the various boyhood and adulthood homes of Abraham Lincoln.
Hitting the California stops on the tour may take us some time, but that’s where you can help. If you live near any of presidential homes and want to contribute to the blog, post your photos (new or existing) to Flickr and point me to them so I can add them to the blog. And if you want to post comments about your travels, I can arrange that, too.
(Cross-posted at Beltway Blogroll)
Categories: AirCongress, White House, History
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