Cheaspeake Bay, Virginia

We arrived here on Tuesday the first of June. I posted that eventful day and have taken a few days off. Wednesday found us waiting around for calls from insurance adjustor's. What a waste. At least Christy's insurance company admitted she was at fault and they will bear all the costs for repairing our motor home. We told them we would not be back in south Florida until sometime in September and at that time we would get it fixed. We will not spoil another summer trip because we are still able to use the motor home.

Thursday finds us thinking we will go to Williamsburg, Va. We head out and know that we are going to visit the city and see Colonial America. You can purchase tickets for a tour but, we know we can't walk far, and they are really pricey, like $49.00 per person! So, we go, find a parking place and walk the streets of colonial Williamsburg.

Tom finds a bench to sit and wait for Nancy to tour where she wants, and eventually Nancy shows up and they continue their visit. We then ride around the city on the same streets that the tour buses use. We then head for home and find the roads under construction, and after many delays we arrive back home.

Friday, we head into Richmond to tour the Capitol and then onto the Confederate White House

and finally the Museum of the Confederacy. Wow, talk about history coming alive......this really gives some thought to our early beginnings as a nation. The Confederate White House is really neat, too.

It has lots of period furniture in it and also some furniture that the Davis family actually owned. It was gutted by Union forces after Appomattox, then used as a school for 500 grade-schoolers for years. Then it was sold to the DCSA (Daughters of the Confederate States of America) and brought back to "life". The museum has lots of clothing, flags of states in the confederacy, guns from that era.

Nancy at the lower entrance to the old State Capitol in Richmond, VA.

The Capitol building is not as lovely as the Pennsylvania Capitol, but the history, knowing where we walked some of the great early statesmen (Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, etc) also walked is something else

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This is the only statue Washington actually posed for.