Not only are the answers, my friend, blowing in the wind, according to Bob Dylan, but you can find answers to questions you'd never hoped to ask from people off the street. Strangers. You know, the ones your mother told you not to talk to. On our recent trip, I discovered why. The set of wind chimes pictured here hangs from a shop in the old town section of Harpers Ferry, W.V., where we ran across a woman who gave us the answer to that never-asked-question, "On the final day of

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Mount Vernon was one of our favorite stops on the 2009 Mother/Daughter Trek. This shot of the plantation's stables shows a glimpse of a unique building in the background. I had just pointed out the lovely structure to my daughter and suggested we walk around to view it from the front. A building marker informed us that this was the Washington family's "necessary." We found bathrooms a plenty in such cities as Philadelphia and New York (props to Starbucks!), however, the famed "New England frugality" proved true while we were walking

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While walking along the streets of Boston's Beacon Hill, our tour guide introduced us to Rex, who apparently has not moved from the position pictured here since Clinton was president. Of course, daughter claims I am mistaken and that the dog's name is actually "Max," so I may have gotten my facts mixed up. Rex/Max might not have budged since Bush Senior.

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