OK, so blogging has been a total fail so far this summer, but I’ll just start with what I’ve seen since Katie and I parted ways after New York City. New York will have to get several blog posts of its own.
Sunday was a stressful day filled with traffic because it didn’t occur to me that everybody would be driving home from the holiday weekend. I made it to Thomas Stone national historic site about 10 minutes before they close. I was disappointed because this site has very limited hours and I’ve been trying to visit it for a few years now. I was looking forward to actually learning about his person I have never heard of. But the ranger was nice and said they would leave the gate unlocked if I wanted to drive around and look at the house even though I had missed the tours. So I did learn that he was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and a plantation owner. One of his descendants was a defense lawyer for one of the men who conspired to kill Abraham Lincoln.
(I still feel like I’m supposed to be taking selfies at every park.)
That night I stayed at an Airbnb in Yorktown, Virginia. It was just a room in this girl’s house, and we started chatting and I found out she works for NASA. She’s probably a little younger than me. She was one of the nicest people I’ve ever met, and is going to be sending books and stickers to my school for my kids. I told her I would love it if she could come speak at my school if she ever finds herself in Salt Lake. I think it would be good for our students to see not just a woman, but a woman of color in a prestigious science position. Representation matters!
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