Figures looming from history discussed as this election year’s developments evolve - Robert E Lee, Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson. Add Richmond’s status in the confederate world and sites of utter carnage like Bull Run, on top the pock-marked maps of earlier Peninsular War campaigning, a campaign where the British totalled a still relatively new Whitehouse looting the city with impunity like Jeremy Clarkson and Millwall hybrids on holiday, doesn’t even get back to the wars of of independence or first contacts. How does it echo today?
Virginia is intersected by I-95, the slow 3 lane slog shifting you into other regional American domains out from the mid~Atlantic - head south to the Carolina’s, directly east and north to Maryland, Delaware and south Jersey’s coastal resort hubs. North to Baltimore and Philadelphia the gateways to Pennsylvania, NY and New England. Virginia is Appalachia too and, veering west, a crest of low mountains broadcast out on bright sunny mornings via extended driving routes all over the topography or, if you’re lucky, during circling flight routes as air traffic control try and stack patterns of planes due to backlogs into/out of Dulles and Reagan airports