President Obama and his family ended their 10-day Vineyard vacation quietly on Sunday morning, lifting off in Marine One at the Martha’s Vineyard Airport at just before 10 a.m.

The motorcade departed the presidential vacation home at Blue Heron Farm in Chilmark at 9:30 a.m. under clear blue and skies and warm sunshine. Small groups of onlookers gathered along the West Tisbury Road to wave goodbye as the President passed.

At 10 a.m. Marine One touched down at Cape Cod Air Station in Bourne, where the President boarded Air Force One following a brief walk down a rope line to greet a gathered contingent of Cape Codders. He traveled to New Orleans Sunday morning to deliver an address on the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

A complete story about the presidential vacation will appear in the Tuesday Gazette.