This past week I rode my bike down most of Shenandoah National Park’s Skyline Drive, a beautiful narrow parkway that winds for 105 miles along the crest of the Blue Ridge Mountains on the east side of the Shenandoah Valley. I had a good stretch …
The Washington Monument is a beautifully simple and impressive obelisk, the tallest in the world, that dominates the National Mall in Washington, DC. It stands on an axis line that connects the United States Capitol with the Lincoln Memorial, over two miles (3.5 km) away. …
In the far northwest corner of Vermont, in the northeastern region of the United States called New England, the northernmost bay of the 107-mile-long Lake Champlain extends a little into Canada, just south of Montreal, Quebec. Into this bay protrudes the wetland-rich delta of the …