Comfort Inn Charlottesville

... left sunglasses at various establishments all over the world I figure every store, restaurant, and winery must have a box full of them somewhere. So my mission before the end of the trip is to get someone to show me their box and let me pick out a pair.<br><br>By the time we left Prince Michel it was 5PM and a dark and stormy night. We called around and found Holladay House B&amp;B and took the ...

... site: some would say "the birthplace of the nation". This is where the Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his troops to the Yankee General Ulysses Grant, which effectively signalled the beginning of the end of the American Civil War. Visiting it helped us put together the various strands of knowledge we had been laboriously piecing together since arriving on the East Coast and we now feel that we have a much better understanding of the key ...

... food, especially breakfast. Got some salmon hash that came like eggs benedict. IT WAS AMAZING!!!! First night we went to Fellini's and had a bottle of wine. It was really nice!! Definitely partied hard with these guys, although I could not really keep up. Had a blast. On the way down to Duck we stopped by his friend Stephen's. <br>

<br>As we left Albany driving towards Charlottesville, i kept thinking how absurd it is that I have yet to ramble in my own backyard. I've lived in New York for years and yet, I've never traveled south of Philadelphia! Our first stop was Shepardstown, a beautiful college town with

... d imagine it's better during the academic year... hopefully.<br><br>So I was completely alone for the first time in 7 weeks. Free of obligations and meetings and activities and deadlines and banters. Oh my gosh, I loved every moment of it. My days consisted of me sleeping in until noon, strolling around the Barracks Shopping Center and the Corner, watching two movies on my laptop (The Red Violin and Hotel Rwanda ...

... Reams of paper were used. Ink cartridges were emptied. Itineraries were mapped, discarded, remapped, amended, and finally, grudgingly, locked into. I say &#8220;grudgingly&#8221; not in the sense that I was angry or resentful. I mean it in the sense that it is impossible to fit in every single place and interesting activity that is to be discovered in Europe into 34 days. But dammit! I was sure going to try. Refining was painful. I wanted to see ...

... no you can't have the rabbits". Well, I don't know what a rabbit is but I really, really, really wanted one of those furry bouncy things running across the grass but they ran away and the darned leash kept me from achieving my goal once again. Oh well...I walked some more and pooped and felt much better. I took a much needed nap while my parents went out for dinner. Hopefully I'll see some more furry things on our drive tomorrow. I'm going to go dream about that very idea right now!

... that in order to kill time we'd head down to Charlottesville's historic district and check out several cute stores!  While we browsing there was a lot going on as people had gathered to thrown a Tea Party in protest of the current governement...it was interesting to see it live as we were hearing about them on the news.  When we exhausted that area we drove over to Jeffereson Vineyards for a quick tasting ...

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... that struck me was how he reflected the period he lived in. The Age of Enlightenment or Reason was around during his lifetime and he re seems to have remained true to the school of thought which prized education and the search for fact and truth rather than irrational belief. A characteristic of the Enlightenment was the quest to chronicle and codify knowledge. It is in this period that the first dictionaries were ...