I assume the shared name is the only similarity between the extremely popular trail town of Damascus, Virginia and the city where I once got drugged and robbed after being taken to the middle of the desert in Syria(December 2008). So what do I do when I bookend Trail Days during my visit? Where do I stay? Where do I eat? What must I see? With whom must I speak? How the hell do I get from Damascus to Raleigh on the morning of Saturday, May 16?