I thought I did dumb stuff when I was a teen, but nothing compares to this adventure. Imagine, 16 and traveling to Iraq on Christmas money. I guess my parents were smarter then I thought, they never gave me enough money to buy a plane ticket. 
Photos from last few trips
Finally uploaded photos from my last several trips. Captions are included with the pictures describing where the photos were taken. My favorites photos are from the Congressional Library, the photos of the really beautiful building.
On a side note, I’m trying out a flickr account to see how I like it. I’m still unsure of it, especially with the 20MB free limit for upload of photos. I’ll probably only use it for camera phone pics.
Wow, that’s high
It is hard to imaging seeing a city from this perspective.
One way to get goosebumps!
Watch the shuttle launch!
And if that isn’t good enough, watch the all new shuttle tank camera all the way into space (yes, that is the Earth in the background)! 
Read more about the Return to Flight.