Our hearts are filled to the brim with great and memorable experiences as we have by God’s grace been able to vacation in our Nation’s Capital for the past several days. It is not as hard or expensive as you think, and I would like to provide a little travelogue of our experiences here to encourage other would-be family travelers to come to Washington, DC!

First off, the timing. If there is some way you can take time off in September/October or early November, it is perfect. There is no one else traveling which means there is hardly anyone at all in the FREE museums your tax dollars already pay for. We booked a flight with Spirit Airlines from Boston to BWI for less than $100 per person. Then we took the MARC commuter rail for less than an hour from Baltimore into Washington. From Boston, door to door, it came to just under 4 total hours of travel.