Washington DC
Welcome to my online travel scrapbook! This was the trip that almost wasn't, even after it started. But we managed to pull it off! DC wasn't our intended destination. We had a week long trip to Edinburgh, Scotland planned. It was going to be fabulous. It started in London, catching sights we missed seeing on our last trip there, and then continued on the Caledonian Sleeper train to Edinburgh where we had tickets to the Military Tattoo and a day trip to a nearby highland games and other fun things. But at about 2 weeks until our trip, we learned that a rail strike in the UK was going to severely sabotage our means of transportation, including the sleeper train, and we were hesitant to rent a car in a place where folks drive on the wrong side of the road. So, we cancelled our mostly refundable tickets and planned to try again another year. Meanwhile, my mom had gotten covid about 3 weeks before the trip. She sailed through covid, and so when Scotland fell through, I started plan...