John, you could follow in Jay's wake turbulence. This time of year I'd
go in more southerly directions.

Near his wake I offer Hampton Roads as a candidate:
on the Peninsula (Newport News, Hampton, Williamsburg, York County)
--- the Williamsburg airport-JGG
---- small and GA-friendly
--- Newport News/Williamsburg-PHF
---- bigger with scheduled air carrier, but GA friendly
-- and for attractions,
--- Jamestown (www.jamestown1607.org and www.historyisfun.org)
---- this is the 400th year anniversary, the Queen is coming in May
--- Colonial Williamsburg (www.history.org/)
--- Yorktown Battlefield (www.nps.gov/yonb/)
--- Yorktown Victory Center (www.historyisfun.org)
--- Mariner's Museum (www.mariner.org)
---- the new Monitor Center with artifacts recovered from the wreck off
Cape Hatteras
---- Virginia Air and Space Center (www.vasc.org)
---- for the kids, Busch Gardens/Williamsburg (www.buschgardens.com)
----- open Mar 30-Apr 15
on Southside (Norfolk, Virginia Beach, among others)
--- two GA-friendly airports: CPK and PVG, plus the 'big one' in these
parts: ORF
--- -the- Virginia Beach beach
--- Nauticus National Maritime Center (www.nauticus.org)
--- Big Ships at the Norfolk Naval Base

Plus:
- I'm guessing where you will start from - you will fly across the
Appalachians (not the Rockies but some people do call them mountains)
- Flying around the Hampton Roads area includes the lower half of the
Chesapeake Bay, which is scenic in itself.
-- Tangier Island for some real down-home crabcakes (30 minute flight,
land on the island)
- Here over a weekend? A Sunday morning breakfast Fly In at Campbell
Field-9VG on the Eastern Shore (www.campbellfieldairport.com)
- It's less than an hour from Hampton Roads to First Flight-FFA/Kitty Hawk.

Good luck in your family deliberations, and have a great trip.
george