On October 15th, we left our campsite in Dover and drove down to Virginia Beach. We drove across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge (25 miles) and went through two tunnels (one mile each). The weather was very bad. It was raining heavy and the wind was blowing hard from the North giving us quite a cross wind. Kevin was nervous driving across the bridge being so exposed to the winds. It was still a great sight to see, but we couldn’t see as far as we would have liked. We found a campsite in Virginia Beach and then drove down to the beach. Along the beach, there is a three mile stretch of boardwalk that has many hotels, restaurants and shops everywhere. It is very windy and a little cool. We walked out to the edge of water to see the big waves. If it had been warm it would have been a fun day to play in the waves although it might have been dangerous. We did see some guys surfing though so it may not have been too bad.
On October 16th, we drove to Jamestown – the first English settlement. We toured a re-creation of what their village would have looked like in 1610. They have three replicated ships of the ones the English sailed over on. It’s surprising how small they were and how many people came over on them. We also drove a short distance to the actual place where their fort was by the river. There was so much history there. It was cool to walk the same ground that John Smith and Pocahontas did four hundred years ago. They had an excavation pit where they were finding artifacts and have found many different things from that time like buttons, coins, pots and knives. We didn’t get to go to Williamsburg like we planned because the weather was still pretty bad, raining a lot. We drove back to the RV and just enjoyed an early evening. We had been busy for the last several days so we needed a rest.
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