The Binary Circumstance

It’s only been ten days but it feels like a lot longer.

I took a red-eye to Dulles the evening of 12/20 and on 12/21 I headed with two friends down to Hatteras on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.  Fortunately, I didn’t have to drive and I got to sleep in the back seat.

We had an unseasonably warm and sunny three days at the beach with my friend’s family and the day before Thanksgiving headed back up to Northern Virginia.

As we got into Virginia the weather started changing and it got much colder, gray and eventually rainy.

We stopped off in Richmond, VA to visit my old Alma Mater, VCU and also to Hollywood Cemetery, a beautiful old historic cemetery high up on the banks above the James River.  Hollywood Cemetery is full of old stone crypts and elaborate tombstones.  It also contains the graves of James Monroe and his family, John Tyler and his family as well as Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederacy.  There are also 18,000 confederate soldiers buried there, most them with gravestones about the size of a child’s lunchbox.

I spent the next few days in Northern Virginia with family and on Monday and Tuesday went back down to Richmond to visit more family.

Very early this morning I left Ronald Reagan National Airport and came back to Seattle.

As we flew over the Puget Sound region we were high above the clouds and in the sun.  The peaks of the highest mountains poked through the cloud cover: Mt. Rainier, Mt. Baker and others.  We could even see as far south as Mt. St. Helens.   I was on the wrong side of the plane to get a really good look at it.

That’s a brief summary of my trip and I hope to put some of my pictures on here before long.

I’m tired, however, and I’m going to get some sleep.

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