Washington, D.C. TIRED OF SWEATING OUT the armpits of every shirt you own? Life around the capital can get sticky. Here's your new national policy initiative: Get out of town for a blast of freewheeling enterprise. Source: Outside
Trees, Caves, and the Capital Head out from family-friendly Washington, DC, into Virginias nearby and utterly opulent Shenandoah Valley for underground marvels and above-ground hiking and horseback riding. Then loop through the wilds of West Virginia before returning to the nations capital on this seven-day Mid-Atlantic jaunt.
Revolution and Revolt on the Historic Trail Envision American history as a living thing, and this route would be a tour of its central nervous system, from the staging ground of the American Revolution to the nation-forming Civil War to the breeding ground of the States' current political climate.