JFK said Washington DC "is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm." I don't know about that, but right across the Potomac outside the District, the lovely opposite is true: Virginia is a place of Northern efficiency and Southern charm...and hospitality. Proof of this is the work my friends went through to smoke a shoulder and prepare a smorgasbord of ribs for several other young families on this wet 4th just outside the Nation's Capital:  

The above are two pictures of the Hagia Sophia, one from the outside (that I didn't take) and one from the inside (that I did take).  It was a Church made in 337, become a mosque in the 15th century and now just a museum.  So sad. On a lighter note, I've never seen more special-meal options than Turkish Aiırlines offers: Asian Vegetarian Meal Baby Meal Bland Meal Child Meal Celebratory Cake Diabetic Meal Fruit Platter Meal Gluten-Free Meal Non-vegetarian Hindu Meal without beef Kosher Meal Low-Calorie Meal Low-Fat Meal Low-Salt Meal Muslim Meal Non-Lactose Meal Raw Vegetarian Meal Seafood Meal Vegan Meal Vegetarian Jain Meal Vegetarian Lacto-Ovo Meal Vegetarian Oriental [...]

All Pilgrims have arrived safely!  

Students getting some help from animals  

Less than 24-hours to Santiago...

23 of 23 pilgrims still alive!  A thunderstorm knocked out internet, so sorry for all followers up to this point.  If we walked without stopping, it would be about 23 more hours to go, per the map below.  However, we'll probably arrive our final destination on 11 June, Thursday afternoon (Thursday morning in the US of 'Merica.)

23 pilgrims are approaching the goal of Santiago, Spain...but still 11 days and  254 km out (exactly 10 million inches today, I accidentally found out on my units-conversion-app.)