Test driving the blog ...

With about six weeks before the trip and school out, I'm finally getting around to setting up the blog. I figured it'll take me about that long to get it all figured out so I can seamlessly post on the fly. I'm also going to post thoughts before I leave on the readings they've asked us to do. According to the online itinerary, there will be 30 different sessions and each has a raft of reading to do before. This'll be the place I process. There are almost 30 books to get through before I leave so I'll need this blog just to process all that information.
BTW-thanks for following my travels out east. And don't hesitate to comment, ask, point out, ... whatever. Especially my past and future students. What can I bring back to the classroom to make out time together better? -Mr. Mc

Monticello-Jefferson's home in central Virginia. I took this a few years ago. Figured a picture of something TJ would be appropriate to for the first picture on the blog. For all my students ... yes I still have a mancrush on James Madison ... yes I still believe Jefferson is a big hot mess of contradictions ... but the fella could design a pretty house, couldn't he?

Mr. Lincoln at his memorial. A great writer. A great leader. A great vampire hunter (read the book).

I tripped into this shot at Arlington Cemetery the first year I went to D.C. It's one of my favorite pictures, ever. The power of ideas, leadership and sacrifice.