Life After Work: First Retirement Road Trip!

Since our Las Vegas trip, we have been learning how to be retired. It's not as easy as you might think. It took a good month for us to stop waking up at 6 a.m. to go to school. We had to learn to sit and relax once in a while. There was this drive to be doing something useful all the time. Well, we've finally started to figure it out. Going out to lunch seems to be a useful thing to do, as does going for walks most days.
In any case, our latest adventure involves taking the RAV on a road trip to Washington DC. We started off on Monday, March 19 at about 6 a.m. Google maps said it would be around 9 hours but it ended up being 10 or so. This was due to a bunch of detours, driving up and down a whole lot of Allegheny Mountains, fog and highways that were less than great.
We arrived at our hotel in Alexandria, Virginia around 4 p.m. and rested for a bit. Amazingly, this Best Western has a room, right near ours, that is fully stocked with all kinds of drinks and snacks that are free! So we had a snack and drove to the Old Town part of Alexandria. It is a beautiful place with many refurbished old buildings and a nicely developed waterfront.

We wandered around for a while and ended up at Paradiso Pizzeria which was one of the places I had researched before we left. It ended up being a great choice as, along with excellent pizza, it had 180 types of beer! Unfortunately, we only had one each.