virginia hikes: Great Falls Park Virginia & the Difficult Run Loop, April 15 2017

Last weekend, we traveled up Boston to help celebrate Juan & Rose’s wedding. Rose, who is one of Meg’s best friend, reminded me that I still had not written about the hike we did together when she visited the D.C. area in the spring. So here is the report and the pictures on the the first of our hikes that weekend.

 

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mini-trip report: Dulles airport and Great Falls Maryland, September 2016

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Sometimes trips doesn’t have to be very far. It could just a nice weekend. The area around Dulles airport (IAD), Reston, probably isn’t your first thought of a weekend get away. But, it might surprise you what the area has to offer. So next time you have a stopover at IAD, maybe you can skip the monuments and the traffic downtown. I definitely didn’t have an expectation of this area, but a mattress run gave us the reason to explore.

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