Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater in Pennsylvania.

Visit to Mill Run, Pennsylvania, Frank Lloyd Wright's famous house designed for the Kaufman family. A beautiful, if long November drive from Alexandria led us to a tour of the most famous house in the United States, not because of who lived there, but who designed it, and its unique setting. It really is a beautiful house, in a nice canyon. The scale was bigger than I thought, 4 bedrooms, but huge terraces and an guest house with a pool up the hill. Everything is built-in and "human scale" inside, low ceilings, cleaver windows, everything attached horizontally to the walls. Not 100% practical, but very cool looking. The family rejected his rigid chairs for 3-legged antiques, which are much more practical for the uneven flagstone floors. Great tour worth the time, but wish we stayed a weekend as he designed another house down the road and there are outdoor activities like horseback-ridding and rafting very near by.

Back in the U.S.A.

We have repatriated back the United States and are happy to be home. I use that broadly as we are not in California or Colorado, but in our new home in Virginia.

We spent Independence Day watching the fireworks from the U.S. Capitol lawn. Great welcome back to America.

Back in the U.S.A.

Wadi Rum, Jordan

Off into the desert for some catered camping and good stories over tea, between 4WD and Camel journeys. Travelling to Jordan nearly always includes Petra and the Dead Sea, and we travelled there and were impressed, but Wadi Rum is a bit of beautiful outdoors in the Middle East that is also worth the trip. South of Petra and nearing the Red Sea and the deserts of Saudi Arabia, Wadi Rum is the Desert of Lawrence of Arabia fame and the best place to ride a camel and enjoy a sunset that I can imagine.