Travel Blogs from Virginia Beach, United States
Home Sweet Home
It's hard to believe that my journey around the world has come full circle. Before I conclude, I'd like to take a minute to answer a few of your most burning questions. :) What was your favorite country? India or Guatemala. However, my ...
5 Days Until Departure!
After an additional stint working for my local Member of Congress, I am finally ready to embark on a journey around the world. Each of you has been an important facet of my life thus far and I would love to share a little bit of the experience with ...
A Short Time in Virginia Beach
We only had to spend a few months living with our parents as I ended up securing a job with CSC to work on Aegis Weapon Systems. This lead to a move to Fredericksburg, where we've been ever ...
Is it really over?
... were at the night before. We had dinner at the Coast Guard cafeteria and then Amber and I cleaned out the Queen for the last time. Virginia Beach, VA: This day completely flew by. Amber, Lawrence and I drove down to VA Beach and unloaded our bags at the ...
Long day
I woke up to more rain and checked the weather channel and it wasn't going to be a good day. My boots aren't waterproof and neither are my gloves. I road in the rain until about 3 and then the rain finally stopped. The weather was starting to remind me ...
Enjoying the sunshine
... ! After an excellent journey we picked up our hire car at Washington airport, and actually found ourselves on the right road for Virginia Beach. Traffic built up drastically so we decided to stop after a couple of hours and have a night at a motel, ...
Bicycles at last!!
Yahoooo! We arrived at First Landing State Park in Virginia Beach, VA. WOW! a gorgeous beach on a gorgeous sunny day. Andy breaks out the bikes for the first time. Figures out how the pumps work and we set off to use bikes ...
Heading North Through the South
... large displays of a wide variety of plasticised (think of how they display Japanese food) animal organs. Then set the map for Virginia Beach, made a couple of adjustments so we weren't on boring freeways the whole time, and headed north. And that was ...
To Virginia Beach
... few months later and I'm glad I could add one more visit to the many happy memories I have of Craig. While I was in Virginia Beach, I saw that candidate Obama was coming to town to speak. What a coincidence after having seen Michelle Obama speak in ...
Loving the warm weather!
... share with us. Yesterday Colin and I visited some beautiful botanical gardens in Norfolk, quite close by here, and then went onto the beach for a while. The sea has been very rough, so I paddled rather than swam. Similarly today - we all drove ...
Welcome to Virginia!
... a beautifully lit park. Pictures attached. After about a mile-long light display, we hit the road again and continued onto Virginia Beach. We booked a Howard Johnson beachside hotel, and were delighted to find that our room overlooked the Atlantic Ocean. ...
April 9- 13th, Virginia Beach, VA
My GPS thought I needed to take a scenic route and took me through the Norfolk tunnel in rush hour to get to Virginia Beach. My first impression was "I would not like this traffic." Turns out, there are much easier routes. I arrived at ...
A Day at the Beach
... - only a few hundred meters from their house - loaded with beach chairs, umbrellas and towels. Except we weren't loaded - in Virginia Beach you have little wagons with big balloon tyres that make lugging everything down to the beach a breeze. A great ...
Getting Ready
After three long and frugal months we are finally ready to hit the road and blow a generous amount of our summer savings on gas and tickets to see gigantic household objects... giant ball of yarn? anyone? anyone?. Our first few legs are short but sure to ...
Road-trippin to Virginia Beach and Sara!!
My first time driving a car in a month was a cute little rental from Charlotte to Virginia Beach. Great drive, including nice hour long chat with a friend. It was so good to see Sara. We had a lovely dinner on the shore the first night with ...
Moving Quickly
Gone in a flash......a ticket to Virginia Beach.....certainly sir said Lisa......and gone. Didn't even get to see Giovanni But did get to see Sarah and that was truely lovely and a wonderful week. Never thought I could come this far and meeting ...
Sejour chez mes cousins americains
... . A bientot Cyril Hallo Leute, Begruessung von Virginia Beach, wo ich gute Zeit mit meinen amerikanishen Cousinen verbringe. Bis bald Cyril Hi everybody, hello from Virginia Beach, where I spend some great time with my americain cousins. See you ...
Oh, Virginia
This perhaps may be just a bit more of a photo journal entry. Not a hell of a lot to say about Virginia Beach. Sprawl. Traffic. Strange intersections. Some rain. I shall be brief on ...
Warmer Weather
Day 1 Football...we have Satilite and cable and get all the college football game anyone could ever want We play 18 holes of miniture golf...Parker and Steve tie Day 2 We get up early and head to Colonial Williamsburg. This place is more ...
The Wedding
... I'd dropped one in his beer before we left the house. Now, we had arranged for a ton of people to come around and party at the beach house that night, so we were hardly going to call it off on account of a death in the family. Thus we proceeded to attach ...
The beginning
... the hell was that? That was a God Damn Mexican Stand Off Motherfucker! Hell yeah. And I wandered off. So I then caught a bus to Virginia beach, because the bus was about $50 cheaper than a plane, but takes 14 fucken hours longer. It was ok, but New ...
The Aftermath
... you never heard this theory before?" Noooo. "Is it popular?" I enquire, frightened of the response. "Well, I beleive it" she states with deadpan seriousness. And shit went downhill from there, she linked Buddha to Aborigines and a few other of the most ...
SUN & SHIPS - VIRGINIA BEACH
... toy and no, we didn't get a picture. In terms of beaches ... there are many. But we chose Virginia Beach today quite simply because of its Naval Base - Norfolk, the largest navy port in the world. Although, let me say, the beach ...
Beach a last...
Virginia Beach is a cute town. We just happen to land on the weekend that they do the national Sand sculpting contest. It was amazing to see what the artists could do with sand. My sister took us around, we had a 6 mile bike ride on the ...
Westin Virginia Beach
I'm training the Westin, but my accomodations are at the Hilton Garden Inn in Virginia beach as the Westin is not due to open for another ...
Richmond and Virginia beach
... so a few days off, but lots to tell... Caught a bus from Washington to Richmond, then onto Norfolk where we missed the transfer to Virginia beach, so we went to get a taxi but at 40 dollars we said no then another couple said they would share with us so ...
my weekend at Virginia Beach
hi all i had a fab weekend at virginia beach , sun sea sand and beer not quiet the 4 Ss i was going for lol . its nice very busy and full of shops that all sell the same thing but of course i had to go in them all lol one of the shops u could buy a ...
Preplanning Our Little Virginia Beach Trip...
... has been a rough year for hubby, Mike, so he really needs a few days away with some sun and some surf. The plan is to go to Virginia Beach, VA. It is close, so we can drive, and small, so we don't have to do a lot of trip planning, or decisions ...
Thunderstorm. A.K.A Flash Flood
... guns. A lot of guns, knives, crossbows and so on. So we kitted ourselves out for fishing, camping and BBQing. We got to Virginia Beach and decided that we hadn't come a few thousand miles from home to visit Skegness. So we drove through the beach and ...
Virginia Beach... we will return!
... us!) and made some s'mores! Overall, a fantastic day! Well worth the crazy drive the day before! Alex Says: Virginia Beach is great!! Loved swimming in the ocean, minus the salt that I kept swallowing. Really enjoyed getting our bikes out and ...

