Learning To Fly
If you want to turn a P-51 Mustang around quickly, push the control stick to one side to make the plane roll in that...
ARTICLES: Overnighter
Alpacas and Obstacles
Arts and crafts provide some of the most reliable fodder for high-quality microEXCURSIONS. Of course, the great museums of...
Best Boardwalks In Maryland
SERC may seem an unlikely location for a public boardwalk. One of the least familiar facilities of the Smithsonian Institution, best known for their ecological and conservation research, and its scientists have been at the forefront of the effort to address the...
Learning To Fly
If you want to turn a P-51 Mustang around quickly, push the control stick to one side to make the plane roll in that direction, then pull back on the yoke, forcing the World War II aircraft to bank sharply. It’s the same procedure with an F-14 Tomcat,...
Alpacas and Obstacles
Arts and crafts provide some of the most reliable fodder for high-quality microEXCURSIONS. Of course, the great museums of Washington and Baltimore are choc-o-block with world-class art. But urban centers aren’t always the best places to find crafts.In DC, you can...
Not Your Run Of The Mill Mill
Here at microEXCURSIONS, we believe that travel is largely about serendipity. It cannot be done properly by sticking aciduously to a schedule or a prescribed route. The key to adventure is to yield to curiosity. Whether we’re driving down a country lane, hiking in a...
The Best Barn In Maryland
Dawn and I have a thing for barns. Where we live, down in Southern Maryland, we mostly see big old tobacco barns, sometimes two or three on a single farm. That’s because this was once tobacco country, and the old plantations needed big, airy barns to dry and cure the...
Maryland Geology Day Trip
“Next week, let’s go look at some folded hills,” Dawn said.We had just gotten a new copy of The Roadside Geology of Maryland, Delaware and Washington, D.C., so I knew what she had in mind. She wanted to see some clues to how the environs we know so well came to look...
Smith Island Cruise
The visitor to Smith Island always arrives by boat, a reminder that the residents of its townships — Ewell, Rhodes Point, and Tylerton — live as close to the water as the people of Venice or the tiny fishing villages of the Cyclades. That point wasn’t lost on me or...
Maryland Dove
Everything is massive on an old wood ship. That became obvious, last August, when we stepped aboard the Maryland Dove for the first time.Construction on Historic St. Mary’s City’s latest floating ambassador began at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in 2018; but,...