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Unlike the last time I launched an international trip from Dulles Airport, I didn’t take my pre-flight meal at Vino Volo. You see, my departure gate and that establishment reside at opposite ends of Terminal C and I willingly used …

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The previous post ended with my rather unfulfilling stop at Martin Luther King, Junior’s house but I had to move along so I walked a few blocks past Alabama’s state capitol building to reach the National Civil Rights Memorial and …

August 10, 2014 https://gruncleodd.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/DSCN2817-190x142.jpg

For most of the day, I’d be an hour early. I left New Orleans as I’d hoped just a few minutes before the clock struck 07:00 Thursday and, for the first time in nearly three weeks, most of my driving …