Headed East ('cuz I'm Not a Young Man Anymore)

[Elspode]

Well, after a lifetime of putting it off, Leslie, myself, and a couple of friends are headed to Washington DC this week. Due to work complications, they're all leaving KC tomorrow by car, and I'm flying from here Sunday AM to meet them in Dayton. They'll pick me up at the airport there, we'll do a lick and a promise visit to The Air Force Museum at Wright Patterson, then end up in DC very late Sunday night.

I've already worked up a tentative plan to have dinner and drinks with Pie one evening, and although I'd like to have the time to go a couple of hours North and hook up with some of you who are more Philly located, I don't think the time is going to be there. However, anyone who might want to try and grab an evening meetup while we're in DC proper, let me know! The more the merrier, and since this is the first time I've managed to get that direction in this lifetime, it might also be the last...they don't let me out much.

We'll be doing the usual tourist thing in DC for four whirlwind days, departing on Friday AM to hit Wallops Island and Chincoteague, then a semi leisurely drive back to KC via the Southernish route.
I'm excited to finally get the chance to hit places like the Smithsonian museums, and, most importantly, Udvar-Hazy. Fortunately, our female traveling companions are being very understanding about my nerdgasm over aircraft.