We spent the last few days in eastern Virginia, went to Yorktown, Jamestown, and Williamsburg via ferry 2 days in a row.
Wow, the history and reconstruction of the revolutionary war and civil war were pretty amazing. Didn't get a lot of pictures, these things are sometimes hard to capture on film, so what do you photograph? We stayed at Chipokes Plantation State Park at $27.00/night:( and explored the area pretty heavily. Great park...they had a working plantation (thus the name) attached to the park, it was pretty cool. It has been continually farmed since the 1600's! Tobacco, cotton, peanuts and corn are the main crops here. And there's still a lot of surviving, working plantations all over. Beautiful country. Williamsburg was great.
We walked through historic Williamsburg, adjacent to William & Mary College ( a beautiful campus), and they had period dressed staff working in the 400 year old stores/houses. We felt like we really stepped back in time. And Yorktown was hit pretty hard by hurricane Isabel in 2003, and they've rebuilt it beautifully. We toured the battlefield where the brits surrendered to Washington ending the war. It's on the York River, which is just as wide as the james River that we were camped near, which is as wide as the Mississsippi! Lots of water in these parts!
Then we traveled 150 miles today to Wilson, NC to a campground we found by joining "happy Camper" (1/2 price campgrounds). It's not a great place, but it's cheap, and that's what we need for a while. The weather is great 75 degrees, and there's a botanical garden, rose garden, golfing, a tobacco museum, and we're staying here for a week. We're getting a little tired of moving every couple days. Have I mentioned that before?
We spent the last few days in eastern Virginia, went to Yorktown, Jamestown, and Williamsburg via ferry 2 days in a row. 
Wow, the history and reconstruction of the revolutionary war and civil war were pretty amazing. Didn't get a lot of pictures, these things are sometimes hard to capture on film, so what do you photograph? We stayed at Chipokes Plantation State Park at $27.00/night:( and explored the area pretty heavily. Great park...they had a working plantation (thus the name) attached to the park, it was pretty cool. It has been continually farmed since the 1600's! Tobacco, cotton, peanuts and corn are the main crops here. And there's still a lot of surviving, working plantations all over. Beautiful country. Williamsburg was great.
We walked through historic Williamsburg, adjacent to William & Mary College ( a beautiful campus), and they had period dressed staff working in the 400 year old stores/houses. We felt like we really stepped back in time. And Yorktown was hit pretty hard by hurricane Isabel in 2003, and they've rebuilt it beautifully. We toured the battlefield where the brits surrendered to Washington ending the war. It's on the York River, which is just as wide as the james River that we were camped near, which is as wide as the Mississsippi! Lots of water in these parts!
Then we traveled 150 miles today to Wilson, NC to a campground we found by joining "happy Camper" (1/2 price campgrounds). It's not a great place, but it's cheap, and that's what we need for a while. The weather is great 75 degrees, and there's a botanical garden, rose garden, golfing, a tobacco museum, and we're staying here for a week. We're getting a little tired of moving every couple days. Have I mentioned that before?
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