Memorial Day weekend

I just realized that this weekend is Memorial Day weekend in the US, meaning it's the unofficial start of summer for Americans. That also means that everybody (in the US) is going somewhere away from home to take advantage of the long weekend and to celebrate the start of summer. In doing my daily scan of various American newspapers that I read online, I noticed lots of articles about travel headaches today. I don't miss that. I'm sure the roads are a mess. I guess I don't know for sure that the travel trend is common throughout the US, but from the places I've lived I can say that everyone in DC (or at least it seems like everyone) goes out to the Delaware beaches or the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and in Wisconsin and Minnesota everyone goes "up north". While growing up we always went up to our cabin for Memorial Day weekend, and without a doubt, it was always freezing and felt nothing like the start of summer. Nonetheless, as kids, we would go swimming (in the lake) because we refused to admit how cold it was. I have so many great memories of Memorial Day weekend. While living in DC, we never went out to the beaches for the weekend because I hate the Chesapeake Bay Bridge on a good day, and I certainly hate it in traffic! Anyway, to all of you who are traveling this weekend, have a great time and I wish you safe travels!