Planes to Washington Every Five Minutes

Maybe it's because we just came back from a trip to visit friends in France and England. Or maybe because flying in airplanes lately has become a bigger risk for a lot of reasons. But probably because we live in the nation's Capitol and are only about fifteen minutes from Reagan Airport, I noticed a lot of planes today. We drove over I395 and then to the George Washington Memorial Parkway on our way to lunch in McLean. It's supposed to be the best day of the weekend after a miserable week of rain - and so far it's simply lovely. There was a hint of fall in the air, the sky was blue, and the planes were coming in over the Potomac River toward the airport every five minutes. Having landed in Washington from Milwaukee many times, flying in from that direction is really nice. All the well known monuments and landmarks can't be missed. And when we drove back home from McLean, they were still coming in...every five minutes. It's one thing to visit DC as a tourist, but it's another thing all together to come home.