Comfort Inn Petersburg

The plane ride was uneventful and reasonably comfortable. I thought I was going to be trapped in the middle of the middle of the plane, but I was able to switch seats during online check-in and it made a huge difference. I got a wall in front of me and an aisle seat, so it was about as good as it could be without exchanging $8,000 for a bed in first class. No crying babies or loud talkers—very nice. I watched Zac Ephron's "17 Again" and a Woody ...

... man, who was looking right back at my.

This is when the alarm bells started going off in my head. He just made me uneasy, the way he was staring at me. He asked wh**e I had come from and I answ**ed "Washington DC". The look of hatred in his eyes startled me, and he spat "you're full of **** if you're from DC". I hastened to clarify that I wasn't, in fact, from th**e, but I had only been visiting. This was when I knew he was some ...

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Our end cost, all included (including souveniers)for 3 people for 15 days was $8,700.

The plane fair from Richmond to TelAviv was $1,050 per person taxes and fee included. This was after lots of daily checking and buying tickets at almost their low point about 10 wweks out from the trip. I also discovered that, at least with US AIR flights on TH, F, SA were slightly more expensive. By 3 weeks away ...

Well we started off right, but we hit lots of traffic on Rt. 95 heading into Mt.Vernon and Richmond. Made a historic pit stop at Mt. Vernon. Pretty impressive place. I almost embarrassed Kristi and had us kicked out for rubbing my face on General Washington's pillow. They take that stuff very seriously nowadays.

Then off to Richmond where we met Ryan and Kelly. First night...hotel...not bad.
We hit ...

Sunday July 26, 2009

Luba and I slept in until about 830am. Bevil and Stewart were, of course, up, dressed and waiting for us. Bevil and Stewart took us to O'Doul’s for breakfast and then afterwards took us to visit the family plot at the Hollywood Cemetery. It was great to see that Luba was actually interested to see where my father and family were buried. After a short ride through Richmond we headed back to the ...

The trip from Indianapolis, IN through KY and WVA was hectic and nothing new to see except for a quick tour of Louisville, KY.

The roads were really bad and conjested from Indianapolis on. We overnighted in Louisville and took a quick, err, slow tour on the horse cart around the downtown area. Not a bad city, except for ...

nach einem langen tag im auto heute ein langer tag auf den beinen.

am morgen eine bustour über die us-marinebasis in norfolk (die größte basis der welt), dann weiter ins herz der amerikanischen geschichte: jamestown - erste britische siedlung auf dem amerkianischen kontinent und ...

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 wonderful hosts.

... we passed and then say, "See you next year!" to start persuading my parents to come back, but I just couldn't say it. I was too choked up. It was smooth sailing until we got about an hour away, to Daytona Beach. Mike started to not feel well so we pulled off of the highway and stopped at a Waffle House for him to run into the bathroom. Mom and I ran in, too, and wow... we had seen a ton of Waffle Houses in Orlando ...

... 90's with high humidity. On the 150 mile drive to Colonial Williamsburg we stopped at two of many plantations along route 5. The interstate from DC. to Richmond was beautiful: slightly hilly and tree lined on both sides . The divider has stands of original trees so you didn't see the other side. Unfortunately time did not permit seeing important civil war battlefields like Mananas, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania or those around Richmond. We took an old two lane blacktop road ...