Virginia Beach, United States Travel Blogs

A Short Time in Virginia Beach
Jul 4, 2008

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 since.

Long day
May 19, 2009

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 of ...

Enjoying the sunshine
Sep 14, 2009

... ! 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!!
Nov 29, 2007 (24 photos)

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
Aug 29, 2007 (1 photos)

... 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 an ...

Loving the warm weather!
Sep 17, 2009 (3 photos)

... 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 down ...

To Virginia Beach
Oct 27, 2008 (5 photos)

... 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 ...

SUN & SHIPS - VIRGINIA BEACH
Nov 10, 2008 (8 photos)

... 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 ...

April 9- 13th, Virginia Beach, VA
Apr 13, 2008 (35 photos)

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
Aug 30, 2007 (8 photos)

... - 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 ...

All done...time to party!
Aug 27, 2005 (17 photos)

... So I had a few days till Leah finishes, she's delivering books right now in her territory, and I decided to take some time in Virginia. First I met up with Tarek and old buddy from UT I haven't seen in forever and then went to a friend from high school's ...

Getting Ready
Aug 27, 2008 (1 photos)

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!!
Sep 2, 2008

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
Dec 22, 2006

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 ...

Oh, Virginia
Aug 22, 2005 (5 photos)

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 this.

Warmer Weather
Nov 19, 2005 (2 photos)

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
Oct 20, 2006

... 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 strings to ...

The beginning
Oct 5, 2006

... 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 York ...

The Aftermath
Oct 23, 2006

... 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 ...

Westin Virginia Beach
Oct 14, 2007

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 month.

Preplanning Our Little Virginia Beach Trip...
Jul 23, 2009

... 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 were to ...

Visiting Brian and Angie
Jan 1, 2002

Went to visit Brian and Angie. I'll add more later.

Swimming with Dolphins
Aug 1, 2006

... just a few meters away from dolphins! It was great - there must have been 6 or 8 of them! We stayed on the beach until about 3, and thoroughly roasted, returned to the hotel to shower and change for some more shopping and dinner. We went to target, ...

Virginia Beach
Feb 20, 2008

Virginia Beach was very interesting!  Catch the Fire with John & Carol Arnott, Bill Johnson & Duncan & Kate Smith.  It was alot of fun to hear all the teachings and I know Owen had a blast playing for Kelley & Rob!  I had a ...

Day 6: Nags Head, NC to Virginia Beach, VA
Jun 8, 2009 (27 photos)

... (they are known for their milkshakes, over 70 flavor combos listed). We also had onion rings...yum-o! After lunch we headed to Virginia Beach, about a two hour drive. We checked in to the Budget Lodge Hotel. It's a nice hotel. We have a 6th floor room, ...

Virginia Beach
Jun 4, 2008 (30 photos)

We are now waterlogged!! We arrived at Virginia Beach on Wed. evening--and have a room with a beautiful view of the ocean. We walked down the large boardwalk that night and sat out on rocking chairs, listening to a great band and watching strange people ...

Catching Some Killer Waves DUDE!!
Aug 13, 2005

... hit and pull out and down the beach. It was pretty fun relaxing on the beach. After getting cleaned up we decided to hit the Virginia Beach strip. It was super busy, but we got to see some hack magician pull a cantaloupe out of his hat, and cut a lemon ...

Picking up hubby in a few hours!
Jun 27, 2009

Jason's delayed in Atlanta...but made it through the long flight from Korea.  Picking him up, staying in a hotel in VA Beach, and will hit the road tomorrow morning.  Heading for NJ first...to break up the long drive to MA.  Then from NJ to ...

C'mon in, the water's fine
Aug 21, 2008

We had another lovely trip to Sandbridge, Virginia. Pete the Peacock was killed by a dog and we missed him greatly. We didn't see as many dolphins, but I did see a couple of pods. The air temps were wonderful with a nice breeze, but the water temps were a ...

VA Beach
Dec 18, 2006

christmas trip, lived here, etc