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Guess What I Did On My Vacation

I built a blog, of course. I diligently avoided blogging here at Beltway Blogroll for the better part of two weeks, but I just couldn't break the addiction entirely while on vacation over the Memorial Day congressional recess.

My blogging was of a personal nature this time -- it featured plenty of pictures of my wife, Kimberly, and our kids -- but with a political/historical twist that my readers here may appreciate. Kimberly and I recently decided to go on a mission by visiting the homes U.S. presidents.

We're doing it both for fun (to the parents anyway, as I collect presidential biographies and Kimberly loves gardens and homes) and educational value (to our home-schooled children). I thought our travels might serve as a useful and free Internet guide to presidential homes, so I decided to blog about them at U.S. Presidential Homes. Additional photos also are available at Flickr.

Our first stop, appropriately, was at Mount Vernon, the home of the nation's first president, George Washington. Several of the presidential homes are just a day trip away for us, so we plan to visit those as soon as possible. And I'm personally looking forward most to a trip to the Midwest for tours of the various boyhood and adult homes of Abraham Lincoln.

Hitting the California stops on the tour may take us some time, but that's where you can help. If you live near any of presidential homes and want to contribute to the blog, post your photos (new or existing) to Flickr and point me to them so I can add them to the blog. And if you want to post comments about your travels, I can arrange that, too.

(Cross-posted at another of my personal blogs, AirCongress)

Posted by Danny | 12:12 PM

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