We left the Skyline Drive and headed south-east through rolling English style countryside. We thought we were back home with towns and counties called Chesterfield; Lancaster; Northumberland; Westmoreland; Essex; Kent; Isle of Wight; Chester; Richmond; Gloucester; Portsmouth; Middlesex; Suffolk; Norfolk and Southampton. They must really have been homesick when they all arrived here!
Our journey took us on the Colonial Parkway, visiting Berkeley Plantation - birthplace of a signer of the Declaration of Independence and a United States President. On to the Colonial National Historical Park where we explored the first permanent English settlement in North America at Historic Jamestowne and discovered Yorktown Battlefield, site of the last major battle of the American Revolution. We both learned so much, quite shocking that we have reached the ages of 63 and 64 and knew so little about our own history, it was absolutely fascinating. As usual we ran out of time!
Arriving at a campsite in the dark is no fun! Why are there always big trees in the way?
Next day we went to see the beach on the site then drove over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge - Tunnel. 17.6 miles shore to shore, with three bridges, two tunnels and a viewpoint and cafe at the 4 mile point - quite an engineering feat! Following the Eastern Shore of Virginia and into Maryland then Delaware - first state to join the Union and the second smallest.
Our next day, we drove across Delaware and over the Bay Bridge towards Washington DC. We had been told about a National Park site called Greenbelt Park - just 12 miles from Washington centre - an oasis in the middle of the urban jungle.
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| Berkeley Plaantation |
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| glass blowing at Jamestown |
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| Yorktown |
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| Victory Monument in Yorktown |
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| Moore house where terms of surrender were agreed |
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| Chesapeak Bay Bridge-Tunnel - this bits one of the tunnels from part way across |
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| Chesapeake Bay bridge - tunnel |
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Surrender Field in Yorktown  |
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