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Saturday was our day to return to visiting historical sites and visit Jamestown. The Colonial Parkway, linking Williamsburg with Jamestown and Yorktown, is the scenic way to get there. The Colonial Parkway was completed in 1957 to mark Jamestown's 350th anniversary. It's designed for pleasure driving and is an unusual road in many respects: three unmarked lanes (the center for passing) with a concrete/gravel mix surface rather than tarmac that results in a&n...

Well, I drove out to Jamestown today to take some pictures and walk around and get some fresh air. I went to the Jamestown Settlement Museum in Jamestown where they have some pretty cool exhibits, they have a reconstruction of the original Fort Jamestown with guards who stand duty in colonial clothing, and they have some ships on the water that you can tour. They are the Susan Constant, Discovery, and the Godspeed which were the 3 ships that left England in 1606 and arrived here in Jame...

Cheap air tickets prompted a spring run to Virginia and North Carolina in spring 06

Mapping out my journey across the US and parts of Canada and Mexico.