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    Ponce's Family vacation report (not fishing) warning tons of pics (Part 1)

    Warning this will be a long post with tons of pictures.

    Every year as soon as school gets out we load up the gang and go on some sort of vacation, we use our travel trailer and try to do something different each year. We try to mix fun kid stuff with things that are either historical or have some sort of learning experience in each trip. Something cool this year was we recently upgraded our travel trailer and this was going to be our shakedown cruise with it, I’ll say this we love even more than we thought we would.

    This year’s trip was going to be in the DC area with a stop at Kings Dominion on the way home. Being a retired Marine I wanted to show the family some of my world. We visited the Marine Corps Museum it was a first for all of us and it was top notch I would recommend this to anyone Marine or not. I also got us tickets to the Friday night parade at 8th and I, I had been to this before and wanted the family to see it. Once again I would recommend this to anyone, if you are the slightest bit patriotic you will have goose bumps the whole ceremony.

    We also did the normal DC stuff seeing the main memorials and monuments, as well as the Smithsonian Museum of Natural Science. I also wanted to go pay my respects to some friends and all the other great Americans at Arlington Cemetery.

    We camped at Lunga RV park on Quantico and it was awesome. We were on a little point where we could throw rocks and hit water from our camp site. Me and Daniel got to do our far share of fishing with a couple of Largemouth bass to show for it. We saw deer every day, as well as ducks and geese. We also did the normal camping activities playing games and cooking smoores.

    The trip went off without a hitch we had fun and made it home with no problems at all. I’ll try to let the pictures tell the story.

    Pictures of and from the RV.

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    View from the back window.

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    View from the table.

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    Mom and Dad's view from our bedroom.

    Headboard view.

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    Foot of the bed view.

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    Inside pictures for Nauti Natured. (Sorry for the clutter).

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    Scenery from the camp site.

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    Our Camp Friends.

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    Part 2

    Camp fun and games.

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    We managed to do some fishing.

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    Marine Corps Museum

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    Marines Training

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    Smithsonian Museum of Natural Science

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    Part 3

    Politics aside the most powerfull man in the world works and lives here.

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    Capital

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    Arlington, many great Americans gave their lives for what too many Americans take for granted.

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    Tomb of the Unkown Soldier

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    Marine Corps Memorial

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    World War Two Memorial

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    Vietnam Memorial

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    Korean Memorial

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    I wish more people would remember this.

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    Part 4

    Last part.

    Washinton Monument.

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    Lincoln Memorial and reflecting pool

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    Lincoln Memorial

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    Family Picture.

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    Thanks for sharing. DC is an amazing place to spend some time.

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    Awesome report Ponce and thanks for sharing the pics of your gorgeous family.

    Looks like a great trip with the focus in the right place! That camper is awesome. Looks like a good "Beach House" to me

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    Great photo spread. It brought back memories for me.

    When I was a kid we stayed at Lake of the Woods in Minnesota, I was about the age of your son. I have very fond memories of that short stay. I'm sure your family will remember trips like that.

    I've also been wanting to do a trip to DC and now that my kids are getting old enough to perhaps appreciate it, I've been talking to my wife about getting down there over this summer.

    Those pictures of the war memorial and places of rest should be visited by all Americans.

    Semper fi.

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    Some awesome pictures of some Very Special places.
    Thanks again for the great dinner, the boys were jealous...
    Told them about when you put the labs to play, they want to come and see!
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    nice pictures, glad you had a good vacation.

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    Outstanding job! You did a wonderful job putting the grounds you covered into pictures. I think its great that those that served have some pretty special places to visit. I'm not one of them, but from a family with a US Marine Corps background and appreciate all that is done. Many thanks again

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