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Fredericksburg Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Fredericksburg, United States
Shopping in Fredericksburg
I love spending a day in the town. Fun shopping and really good restaurants, plus a great ice cream and fudge ...
Southern Fried Gentlemen
HISTORY! It's not something America has a lot of, what with it being founded in 1975 and everything. So when they DO have some sort of past they like to make a huge deal of it, with monuments and statues and fountains and pillars and all sorts of other ...
Traffic Jam
... symbolism. They then moved us into the original House of Representatives where it houses statues gifted by various States. The statues represent a person of significance for the state in which it was gifted from. They also have ...
Run the Gauntlet
... to the VSGA Scholarship program, so you can feel good about contributing to charity. Today, I am playing the Gauntlet in Fredericksburg. The Gauntlet is nestled in Curtis Memorial Park. In the few times that I have played this course, I ...
Lone Star Steakhouse & Saloon
Around 8pm and we just had dinner at the Lone Star Steakhouse & Saloon in Fredericksburg, Virginia. It is now only 39 degrees outside, quite the change from yesterday. We winterized the camper while we were waiting for our buzzer to light up. :-). ...
Fredericksburg
... by the present occupants. Features are the National Museum of the Pacific War and the Admiral Nimitz Museum which pay tribute to Fredericksburg's famous son, Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, and the men who served with him during World War ...
Puppy Love
Well, the day before kind of did us in a little so we decided to sleep in, do some house keeping, let the kids swim and do laundry. We were going to get together later in the day with one of Clark's old high school buddies Craig, who works for the ...
Tires
Well, here we are in Fredericksburg, Tx. We didn't get very far--Boerne--before we blew out a tire on the motorhome. We felt a vibration and Doug said "that's what it felt like the last time we threw tread on a tire" and then it went. We pulled over to ...
National Museum of the Pacific War
Our trip has now taken us to another time in history: World War II, specifically the Pacific Theater. Fredericksburg was founded in 1846 by German immigrants and named after Prince Frederick of Prussia. One of the founders was Charles Henry Nimitz, the ...
Just a Little Time With Some Fast Growing Boys!
October 16, 2012 from Gastonia, NC For us seven hours on the road is a lot of drive time on any given day. The last twenty miles were over two lanes roads crossing through what might be the most heavily populated deer habitat in all of Virginia. ...
Groundhog day!
We visited Chatham house, overlooking Fredericksburg, although we didn't have long there. I was excited to spot a large creature walking across the grass and into a bush. It looked like a beaver, without a beaver tail. When I looked it ...
gabwithgaudets 16
20 March 2006 I am sitting here in Fredericksburg writing this travelogue and I am peeved. I thought I left bad phones in Mexico. So wrong!!!! Back to Mexico...it is the 18th of Feb. We are headed to Chichen Itza. The plan is to stay behind a hotel and ...
Reminds us of Sisters
We are now in Fredericksburg,Tx. Its a small Texas town with lots of gift stores and museums. People are very friendly. There are a lot of German Restaurants, looking forward to eating some German food. Plan to stay for two days an tour ...
Hill Country
Fredericksburg is the seat of Gillespie County. It was founded in 1846 and named after the Prince Frederick of Prussia. The town is notable as the home of Texas Germans, a dialect spoken by the first generations of settlers who initially refused to speak ...
Glad to be on the road again
We left Washington on Tuesday and then quickly stopped in Fredericksburg to recoup and regroup. We had been out of the RV for 4 days and we had to restock the refrig, store away our clean clothes, resupply the water in the RV etc. So we had ...
Driving!
The day before I left for GA, my car starts making this clicking sound...so off to the shop it goes. The rental place gave me this one (a scion of all things) with 2 miles on it. New car and 500 miles to go, almost straight down ...
Shanks and goodbye
Well workweeks over . Cooked more corned beef than I want to remember and it's not even st Patrick's day yet . . Finally packed and got all our paperwork in order . I'm sure something is going to go wrong sooner or later but things have gone ...
Capital City
Today we hit the capital city, Washington DC I knew it would be a bastard to find decent parking and really didn't want to use the confusing valet system again, so I actively searched for one without (they call it Self-Parking here) Of course once we got ...
June 16-17: Fredericksburg, TX
... even had a golf cart that brings you back. Sure was fun and are they ever delicious! The Visitor Center in downtown Fredericksburg has the best "Attractions and Dining Guide with Maps" of any we’ve seen on our travels. "Curly" the ...
Into the Breach
I decided to travel south for my round of golf, today. I am playing Cannon Ridge in Fredericksburg, because they are one of the 195 courses participating in the Virginia State Golf Association VIP program. For $65 membership fee, I get ...
On the way back to Washington
... scenes tour, before taking the walk through the plantation to the Burrial site of Jefferson. In the afternoon we moved to Fredericksburg, which is the last hotel before we return to New York tomorrow. We make the journey tomorrow morning to Ronald ...
Having Fun in Texas
Went to a "Trade Days" in Fredericksburg. There was sooooooo much stuff! They don't do or make anything small in Texas..... Also visited a very small town called Luckenbach... Willie Nelson sings a song about Luckenbach, Texas. The population is 3. ...
Fredericksburg
... don't have it. So this is being written in what seems to be the only Internet enabled coffee shop in Fredericksburg; which, not surprisingly, is very popular. Our B&B is very comfortable and Tom in particular slept well. ...
my aching butt
Finally we got some time today to go do some touring. Hubby picked Fredericksburg where there is Enchanted Rock. It is a big dome that Texans love to compare to Ayers Rock in Australia. Not ...
Texas Hills Wine Country
... State Park just north of Fredericksburg. Enchanted Rock is a large granite rock formation and is the second largest such formation in the United States. I took the Summit trail to the top and this took about 30 minutes or so and was pretty tough going, ...
National Museum of the Pacific War
... feline" web site as a definite place to go if I can ever get the dang thing up and running well. every night brings more problems and frustrations. If you find yourself in Fredericksburg, Texas someday, definitely try to visit this museum. ...
The Flight Home
If there is anything exciting about our flight home, I'll post it here. I suspect we will probably just ...