Visited: Monday, July 12th, 2010
Getting to Washington's Birthplace is not particularly easy; it's on the Potomic, and honestly it's a beautiful site. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the site is the "home" built there when the site was created - only to discover the remnants of the original home a few years later. It was fascinating to hear about Washington in a very different context than usual; one tends to think of Washington the general, or Washington the president, not Washington the boy and his family.
This was the site where we actually came up with our goal of visiting all of the NPS sites. It's not at all clear to me that it's possible, but honestly that's part of the appeal.
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