Sandbridge Passover 2023

Historically, we’ve either spent Passover at home or in the RV.  This year, we rented a beach house in Sandbridge, Virginia, along with a few hundred other Jewish families.

Drone view of the town:

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Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge is south of town:

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Much roller skating was done over the two weeks we were here:

I also did some running on the beach, south to the pier:

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Flying too:

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Here’s a video of some of the flying:

We drove into Virginia Beach and visited a Japanese “sister city” park:

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Parents:

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So long, Sandbridge.  We had a great time, and we’re planning to come back next year:

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The kids drove back with Trish.  I drove back by way of Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge:

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I drove on to Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park:

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The visitor center was very well done.  Harriet Tubman was an amazing woman!

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I continued to Philadelphia, where I did a drive-by on two closed NPS sites, Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial and Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site:

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Summer 2021, Day 62: Pullman National Monument

After a nice weeklong family reunion and Shabbos in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, I continued east into Wisconsin:

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A sample of the wonderful town names of Wisconsin:

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I continued east into Illinois, fighting my way through Chicago traffic:

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I drove to a Chicago suburb to visit Pullman National Monument:

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The Monument preserves America’s first planned industrial community, built in the 1880s to support production of Pullman sleeping cars.  I checked out the visitor center:

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I then walked the community.  The houses are now privately owned:

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I continued east into Indiana to roller skate at Sk8 World in Portage:

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I continued on to Elkhart Indiana to overnight at a field where a PPG pilot will meet me for a morning flight.  See the trip map for today’s drive.

Summer 2021, Day 48: From the Mountains to the Plains

After a nice Shabbos in Taylor Park, I said goodbye to Clay and drove East over Cottonwood Pass:

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After checking out the town of Buena Vista, I drove northeast through South Park and down out of the mountains into Denver, where I went roller skating:

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I continued on to the Pawnee Buttes, where I got in Flight 136.  It was short, since I had to land before sunset:

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See the trip map for today’s drive.