I am not superstitious by nature, but I kidded my colleague, the U.S. Department of State’s Operations Center and we finally got both our bearings and good directions. There was a pay phone, so I called the U.S. We stopped at a park ranger station, only to find it closed. And one cool night in July 2000, travelling to a historic Israeli-Palestinian presidential summit, we had clearly missed a turn somewhere. It gets dark in a way it does not get in Washington, DC, and the road is winding and narrow. It is not visible from the road and very easy to get lost. If you take US Route 77 out of Thurmont, Maryland, a small town nestled in the eastern foothills of the Catoctin Mountains, five miles or so up the road you will find yourself very near Camp David.
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