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Watch the Navy’s Blue Angles in their F/A 18 Hornets perform their precision flying routine, numerous aerobatic champions, current and vintage military aircraft, world’s only husband-and-wife aerobatic and skywriting duo and a couple skydiving teams at the Oceana Air Show in Virginia Beach.
Scheduled to appear at the show are:
The ever-popular and crowd pleasing Blue Angels’.
The […]
As the largest summer indoor Antiques Show in the country, the 27th annual Baltimore Summer Antiques Show is the place for antique lovers.
With 550 total local, national and international antique dealers and 60 silver specialists, 30 specializing in Asian Arts, 70 in ceramics, porcelain and pottery and a wide selection of glass dealers selling Steuben, Heisey, Moser, […]
Albuquerque is known for it’s annual balloon festival, but next week you can attend a local balloon festive, complete with colorful, giant hot air balloons.
You can also take a ride in one of the balloons or a vintage biplane as well (subject to availability and weather).
Besides the balloons, there’s also the flying circus air […]
What better way to celebrate the discovery of the stunning Luray Caverns 127 years ago than with a blues, bluegrass and balloon festival?
A dozen brightly colored hot air balloons will launch en mass from Shenk Farm at Luray Caverns on Friday evening and then again twice daily on Saturday and Sunday.
Listen to blues and bluegrass bands including […]
My buddy Sheila at Family Travel just returned from what sounds like a fun family trip to Virginia’s “historical triangle” - Colonial Williamsburg, Jamestown and Yorktown. She graciously offered to write a guest post for The DC Traveler. There’s tons going on in the triangle, and it’s not just limited to historical attractions.
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Virginia’s Historic Triangle with Kids
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Back in the 1600s, (the legend goes), a Spanish galleon lost the battle with the Atlantic and sunk off the coast of the now Virginia and Maryland borders. What survived was herd of wild mustangs that swam ashore and have been roaming the beaches, forest and salt marsh of Assateague Island ever since. Recently, the remains of […]
The the July edition of Travel + Leisure magazine Virginia and its 130+ wineries were named as one of the five “up-and-coming” wine regions in the world and as such, the only American location to receive that distinction.
The article Wine-Lover’s Guide: 5 Wine Regions to Visit Now focused on five of the most promising […]
While Lynn at The Paris Traveler may be a bit surprised see that I’m writing about Paris, she shouldn’t feel any competition.
About 60 miles west of DC is a quaint little town of Paris… Paris, Virginia, just a bit west of Middleburg. It’s population…only 49. I happened across Paris a couple weeks ago on a […]
No, not Monty Python’s Flying Circus… a real flying circus.
Ever Sunday afternoon, just a hour west of DC in rural Bealeton, VA, you can watch a flying circus with over a dozen vintage planes performing acrobatic feats. The show also includes a parachute jumper opening the show as well as a wing-walker who hangs from […]
Before European settlers discovered the warm waters of Berkeley Springs in West Virginia, it was a native American spa haven. In 1748, a 16 year old George Washington visited the warm springs as part of a survey team. He later visited regularly and quickly, the spa’s notoriety grew.
The owner of the land, Lord Fairfax, in […]
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