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We’ve had our first snowfall of the season. The first frost of the season has come and gone, killing any Fall bedding plants. And the annual tradition of people freaking out due to a trace of snow on the roads has occurred, all without major death and destruction.
And sadly, that means most of the trees […]
Even if your environmentally unaware neighbor uses 700 gigawatts of electricity each night powering their own personal holiday light show (see below video), you may feel more inclined to check out some of the area’s professionally designed Christmas and holiday light displays.
And there are enough to let you visit one a week, from now until […]
These photos were recently taken about an hour west of Washington, DC, at Manassas Battlefield Park in Manassas, Virginia, the site of the first Battle of Manassas in 1861 during the Civil War. Also called the first Battle of Bull Run. A year later, a second battle on the same site occurred. Over 80,000 soldiers […]
I was driving in Northern Virginia yesterday, at the time when the sun was just about to set over the trees and noticed this pond with some explosive colors of fall foliage.
I shot just a few seconds of video and here it is — my first mini-clip.
This upcoming weekend will be the best time to take a drive to […]
I finally made the trip to Skyline Drive, in the Shenandoah National Park this past weekend. And it was really worth it.
Luckily, my timing was perfect as the colors were fantastic. The temps were mild and the sun cooperated, at least part of the day. And surprisingly, the traffic was non-existent.
But I was a bit surprised […]
When the weather turns cold and snow is in the air, there’s a bunch of places to ski and snowboard, all within a just a few hours drive of Washington, DC.
And while area ski resorts may be showing some glorious Fall colors today, in just a couple short months, and a good dose of cold […]
Every year around this time, for perhaps the past four years, I’ve pledged to take a drive to enjoy the Fall colors on Skyline Drive in the Shenandoah National Park. For some reason I always get detoured. The explosion of reds, oranges and yellows in the area are truly beautiful. I’ve driven around and even through […]
If you planned to see the King Tut exhibit — Tutankhamen and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs at the Franklin Institute Science Museum in Philadelphia, you have only a few more days as the exhibit closes at the end of this month.
It’s a great exhibit (see my previous post) and one that […]
The flamboyant, aggressive and publicity-seeking Union commander, General George Armstrong Custer, who later led and died at the infamous Custer’s Last Stand at the Battle of Little Big Horn was also a Civil War hero 14 years earlier, notably at the battle of Gettysburg.
His style of attack was considered by many to be either reckless or […]
“What do you know about stock car racing? Well… watched it on television, of course.” That’s a line from the Tom Cruise movie Days of Thunder. And here’s your chance to see live NASCAR close to DC.
The Martinsville Speedway racetrack is the shortest track on the NASCAR Nextel Cup circuit. At just over a half mile in length, […]
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Written by Jon Rochetti [email] for b5media.
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