Hello everyone. Margo here,
Virginia FINALLY showed us some "love" last Saturday with a beautiful
and sunny 70° day. This would be our first (and last as it turns
out--more about that in a minute) chance to do some exploring of the
historical sites here. As we've mentioned in all of our posts, since we
arrived in Virginia, the weather has been the overriding factor in our
daily activities or lack thereof (work, sightseeing or just plain being
able to get out and enjoy the outdoors).
We chose to visit Colonial Williamsburg on this beautiful day. Restoration began in 1927 with John D. Rockefeller's financial backing and continues today. As I said in an earlier post, the Anvil Campground, where we stayed while here in Virginia, is family owned. The great-grandfather and grandfather of the current owners contributed to the restoration efforts from 1929 through 1935 making the original wrought iron work. Tools, locks, hinges, shutter dogs, gates and anything else that was needed. They have on display the original anvil used for this work at the campground office.... hence the name.
We were lucky enough to catch the Fife and Drum Corps of Williamsburg decked out in the traditional garb performing a tattoo. The Corps was an important part of our nation's revolutionary battle, serving alongside the soldiers on the battlefield.
It was a pleasure to stroll along the streets just as they did in the late 1600s and imagine being there back then. I leave you with some pictures of our day and then a word from Kevin about our next adventure. In-Joy
Hey folks. My turn.
For quite some time I've known that possibly we'd be selected by the company to join the team in Salt Lake City and work that account come spring until fall. It wasn't guaranteed so I kept it to myself but I can say now, that in fact, we've been given the go ahead. We leave Thursday and are due there by the weekend of the 30th. That's 2000 miles of cross country Alumazooma*. No sweat. We're even going to throw in another couple-three days stop at Mom and Mel's in Eastern Tennessee. We'll be taking a lot of pictures along the way and I plan a photo op involving LuLu and the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. No guarantees there either but I'm mentioning it now to challenge myself even further. Nothing like teasing the entire Internet..... okay maybe not the ENTIRE Internet...
Margo plans to put some wheel time in across Nebraska where it's nice and flat and straight. She's maneuvered in the RV parks a time or two so is ready for the big time. This will be our longest trip yet and Old Man Winter might still want to mess with us but no worries - we have our house with us wherever we go. We can always take a more southern route or even hole up somewhere if necessary.
See ya down the road.
*credit Rich Luhr, editor of Airstream Life Magazine, for the coolest of Airstream verbiage.
