Richmond, United States Travel Blogs

Alex's thoughts
Jun 1, 2007

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
May 17, 2007

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 good ...

Virginia in May
May 18, 2009 (14 photos)

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
Feb 4, 2009 (10 photos)

... my parents and tell them when we'd arrive and at what station. We arrived a few minutes early at the downtown train station Richmond, just a few blocks from my mom's office.  It's a beautiful station, and I highly recommend it for your next tour of ...

The preparations have begun
May 12, 2007

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 ...

Testing eins....zwei....drei...
May 14, 2006

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% terror.

richmond recycles!
May 21, 2008 (3 photos)

... 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 Evan!

pre-trip test
Oct 3, 2006

Just checking out how this works before we try it from some snooty Euro internet cafe! Cheers to all.

Travel notes from Sarah
Feb 5, 2009

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!
Feb 5, 2009

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 course, ...

Up and going
Mar 14, 2009

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 T

Mount Vernon & Richmond
Sep 11, 2008

... (9/11!) Picked up hire car & got caught up in the traffic going to the Pentagon for the Presidential Address. Motored south & called in at Mount Vernon, George Washington's country house - now nicely restored. Stopped at Richmond for one night only.

Lee made the choice
Nov 11, 1993

... 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 zone

Oh, the characters you meet at a Greyhound station
Sep 21, 2009

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 ...

Getting ready to leave!
Aug 23, 2008

... on your lives and what is going on in the States (hardle5@wfu.edu).   I am leaving Thursday the 28th from Richmond and meeting the rest of my group at JKF before the long flight to Africa.  Hopefully I will have quite the adventure, ...

Wedding...
Jul 30, 2006 (5 photos)

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 ...

Visiting Dane's Fam
May 18, 2009

We visited Dane's parents one more time in beautiful Virginia before leaving the country.  They took us camping, brought us to see Jamestown and Colonial Williamsburg, and cooked us amazing meals.  Thank you, Donna and Chuck, for being such ...

Monuments to Confederacy
Aug 14, 2009

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 bias!!

Excited!
Jan 12, 2007 (3 photos)

      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
Jan 14, 2006 (4 photos)

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 started ...

Richmond
Oct 24, 2007 (4 photos)

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!)
Jul 15, 2008 (10 photos)

... 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
Oct 11, 2008 (5 photos)

... 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 and ...

Visiting our first-born!
Sep 24, 2009 (1 photos)

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 ...

check check check 1 test check check up on 3
Mar 16, 2009

Hey guys, James here. I know no one is going to read this because I didn't tell anyone about it. Stay classy -James

Home - Took the Fast Route!
Jul 10, 2009 (3 photos)

... 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 West!"

Packing for 42 days on the Lam...
Feb 20, 2004 (1 photos)

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 ...

feeling the heat in richmond, virginia
Aug 23, 2007

see new york entry for details of our days in richmond

The (tentative) Itinerary: 42 sweet days to play!
Feb 14, 2004

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 think ...

Getting ready to leave
Jun 2, 2009

I packed for most of the day on the 1st and the 2nd, which mainly consisted of me chucking my clothes at various bags. On the morning of the 2nd, after saying goodbye to bunches of people, forgetting a couple of different things, I end up setting off for ...