Planing Trip with Veteran

I plan to bring my 88 yr old father to see the WWII memorial and probably the Air/SPace Museum. He gets around pretty well and is really sharp for his age. But I need help planing this. We will be coming from SLC would also like to visit relatives in the Harrisburg PA area. SO, shoud be fly into BWI--stay near the airport--drive (ugh!) into DC. Drive to PA for a few days then fly out of BWI again. OR would it be better to just stay in DC. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I haven%26#39;t been to DC since I was a girl scout (very long time ago)

Planing Trip with Veteran

For starters, are you planning to buy round-trip tickets on the same airline, or can you afford one-way tickets? (buying them separately via Hotwire or Priceline might cut the price somewhat, although you might end up with inconvenient connections).

The easiest way is to fly from SLC into DCA (Delta has convenient non-stops) and stay downtown. Then visit PA, and fly out of PHL via Southwest or US Airways. (You can fly out of Harrisburg as well to PHL or PIT and then onto SLC).

Planing Trip with Veteran

VickyBee,

For your drive to Harrisburg, I%26#39;m not sure if you%26#39;ve planned your route, but I recommend taking 15 instead of 83. I take this all the time and it%26#39;s just a beautiful drive. If you get on the beltway out of DC and take 270 North to 15 North, it%26#39;s a much less hectic drive to Harrisburg with a lot of nice pit stops along the way.

You pass through Thurmont, where I recommend The Shamrock restaurant for lunch. http://www.shamrockrestaurant.com/

Next is Gettysburg (for the history and the outlet mall), there%26#39;s also a Boyd%26#39;s Bears Musueum and Gift Shop with a cafeteria to eat lunch if you get to the Shamrock before lunch.

VaBelle is right on money with advice. If you have a choice take 11/15 North. I head into PA quite a bit through Harrisburg and it is a lovely drive. Once you get past Frederick, Maryland there is rarely any traffic. Ironically, I stopped at Shamrocks just two weeks ago. Lovely!!

It should take you take you a wee bit over two hours into downtown Harrisburg from DC and very Northern Virginia.