Climbing Mt Rogers |
 In 1962-63, while on my first visit to the United States, I visited Virginia and stayed in Alexandria (which is just south of Washington, DC). Twenty-five years later, I visited a high-school friend, Neville Richardson, who was a visiting scholar at the University of Washington and Lee, and I stayed with him and his family in Lexington. When I returned to Virginia in 2015, climbing its highest mountain and exploring some of the state’s rich history were high on my agenda. Incidentally, sic semper tyrannis, the Latin motto on the Virginia flag, means “thus always [death] to tyrants.” |