Richmond
Travel Blogs from Richmond, United States
Virginia in May
From Austin, we went back to Virginia to spend a couple more weeks with my mom and Chuck. It was great getting to bookend our trip by spending time with them. Winter was snowy and pretty, then spring was beautiful. We went camping in ...
Train to My Parents' Place in Virginia
We took a comfortable 6-hour train ride to Richmond, where my mom and Chuck live. The most obvious aspect of being back in the States was that I could overhear other people's conversations again. In Asia, people talk and it's background ...
Alex's thoughts
Alex's thoughts: I think that going to Turkey is going to be a lot of fun. I'm going on a train for the first time. I am going to sleep on the train. I think it's going to be pretty easy to fall asleep on the train because the sleeper car was made to ...
Shots
Today we had an appointment with C. Bruce Norman at the Travel Clinic at Henrico Doctors' Hospital. In addition to our "standard" immunizations, we opted to receive an immunization against Typhoid Fever. While the chances of getting typhoid are not ...
Testing eins....zwei....drei...
I will be aboard a plane landing in Berlin in approximately 84 hours, marking the beginning of my solo overland journey to Istanbul. How do I feel about this? 98% enthusiasm and confidence, 2% ...
The preparations have begun
We've rented the house, we've bought the tickets, we've made hotel reservations. What else is there to do? Well... they Typhoid shots. I'm pretty sure we won't get typhoid without them, but how embarassing would that be to try and explain to people ...
richmond recycles!
... I've had on my trip, french pressed, and the realization I was gonna blow out of Richmond for the Blue Ridge, he he oh yeah, and then my friend Evan from Richmond Recycles totally hooked up my bike, gave her a new chain and a little tunin. Thanks ...
pre-trip test
Just checking out how this works before we try it from some snooty Euro internet cafe! Cheers to ...
Travel notes from Sarah
Panama City-hot Cab Casco Viejo-see, kind of sketchy Canal- Miraflores locks is closest, has good museum, deck $8 Panama Viejo-old town, original Spanish town La Esposición Hotel Boquete Bus to David !% Minibus to Boquete 1.25 ...
Pre-trip Panic!
Talk about timing! Last minute preparations for the trip, sorting out charge cards and cash, and a discovery: NO DEBIT CARD. Earlier today I went to the bank to get cash for getting my nails done, and, oh my, left the card in the machine. This, of ...
Up and going
We are up and packing the final details. We are both almost giddy with excitement about this trip. MANY THANKS to everyone who has helped us pull this off. Hopefully we will find some web access and keep you all posted. S and ...
Lee made the choice
... named "Annabel Lee." Nearby is Colonial Williamsburg, Historic Jamestown, and Yorktown, site of the last battle of the Revolutionary War. It's not far to Washington, DC. Richmond, Virginia Population 197,456 Elevation 150 Eastern time ...
Oh, the characters you meet at a Greyhound station
So i didn't really plan to go to Richmond, but was forced to spend two hours there when my Greyhound bus was late coming in from Washington DC and I missed my connection by 5 minutes. I put my bag in the line-up for the gate, so as to get myself a good ...
Home and still warm
We are back at home and the weather has been warm the last couple of days but today is turning back cold. At least there was a transition to ease us back. There are daffodils in the flower beds and blossoms on the forsythia to offer the promise of ...
Wedding...
In a certain way everything ran smoothly...we had a whole Saturday to chill out and travel to Richmond to celebrate Nat's Uncle David's wedding. Gorgeous wedding, bride, groom, kids and family. It was our first time in Richmond. It had quite an ...
Monuments to Confederacy
We stopped in Richmond Virginia today for lunch, drove through the monument row, best of all General Robert E Lee, cool name if you ask me but I may be a bit ...
Day 42
... to Roanoke where we picked up highway 460 and headed for Richmond. We got on highway 360 in Farmville. We have now completed a full circle around the United States. We started our trip on 360 heading to Danville and now we were heading to Richmond. ...
Excited!
I am so excited I can't sleep some nights, seeing the sites again in my mind, anxious to be back. The land and its people have seeped into my soul and I continue to feel a tug to return. ...
Richmond, Kentucky
Saturday January 14 we left Franklin at 6.15 am and drove to Richmond, Kentucky to stay with Barbara's sister Donna and her husband Paul. We breakfasted at Cracker Barrel, one of the sponsors of the Grand Ole Opry the night before. Cracker Barrel ...
Richmond
We're now in Richmond, VA. I can't believe we're already halfway through our trip! It's going amazingly fast. I'm sooooo glad we decided to do all of this is an RV rather than living in and out of suitcases at hotels for all these months. I love ...
How My Fantasy became a Reality (Thanks to WWOOF!)
... I am paying for the entire six week trip with (not necessarily all of) the earnings from my 2007 and 2008 University of Richmond bio-chemistry summer research job with the fabulous Dr. Lisa Gentile (thank you). I also received a generous donation from my ...
Richmond Virginia
... avenues with well maintained and sometimes splendid old houses. Fortunately, David Puhala whom we had planned to meet at Richmond Acceleration Sports Training was still waiting for us. David explained the operation was still building after three years ...
Visiting our first-born!
We drive through quaint St. Helena and then Napa, get on 80 and cross our fingers hoping to get through the traffic in one piece and make it into the Bay Area before noon. We are blessed with good luck and breeze through in no time at all, surprising ...
The Sexus Keeps chugging along!
... pull over to the side. One hour later.. The tyre finally pops in the middle of a busy bridge in the town of Richmond, Virginia. Police assistance provided us with everything we needed to get back on the road, including a lift to the tyre shop because the ...
check check check 1 test check check up on 3
Hey guys, James here. I know no one is going to read this because I didn't tell anyone about it. Stay classy ...
Home - Took the Fast Route!
... our house while we were gone. We tooks thousands of pictures, and no, we won't make you look at all of them. Praise God for a safe trip through 19 states and over 13,100 miles. A few words of advice - "Go West, young man (and woman), go ...
Packing for 42 days on the Lam...
O.k. we seem to have solved the digital pic conundrum (but for a final test-run at a nearby Internet cafe here at home). So best I now turn attention to just what "stuff" to bring along to ensure that I remain reasonably comfortable through 8 time zones ...
The (tentative) Itinerary: 42 sweet days to play!
When I booked my (incredibly cheap through Travel Zoo - just $745 rt. from Chicago to Johannesburg) air to South Africa, I opted to use the maximum number of days allowed for the fare - 42 days to play in the South African sandbox. Now wouldn't you ...


