Econo Lodge Petersburg

... they would have had me. Since that would have been strange, we took two baguettes twisted in brown paper and headed home. We only stayed long enough for a snack of cheese and bread and a shower so that I could see Paris before falling asleep.

I think it would be very challenging to drive in Paris unless you were raised to it. As Catherine said, “It’s important to know where you are going.” There is not room for indecision or ...

... 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 ...

... couple bars and played "The Night they Drove Old Dixie Down" five times on the jukebox and we sang every word like it was 1865. We became the hit of the party after asking the bartender to turn it up and to put on the Yankees-Red Sox Game.
We hit the road early in the morning and knew we were going to have a good day when we read signs that said we were entering "Goochland". Next stop...Western Virginia.

... to change, pack up and head out!

We were finally on the bike and headed south towards Cary, North Carolina to visit Luba’s family at about 12pm.

The ride south was very pleasant. I really enjoy riding on small highways with really tall trees along both sides of the highway. It just seems like a much more peaceful ride. It’s so much different from the west coast riding where there a lot of open space.

... drivers who would not give an inch to allow us to merge into the many interstates around town. Drving through West Virginia was a nightmare with the curvey mountain roads that we had to pay to ride on. They sure do need Obama's stimulus money! Charleston was very dirty; we couldn't leave fast enough.

We are home now ...

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 ...

From Austin, we went back to Virginia to spend a couple more weeks with my mom and Chuck. It was great getting to bookend our trip by spending time with them. Winter was snowy and pretty, then spring was beautiful. We went camping in Virginia, then took a quick trip to Florida (by quick I mean a 13-hour drive followed by an identical return trip a couple of days later). Camping was fun. We made smores. My mom and Lindsey love them some chocolate.

We ...

... chipped off, and the ceiling was caving in. I went into the bathroom and it was un-air conditioned and like a sauna. It was a very gross feeling considering it was ninety-five degrees out. Also, the sheets didn't fit the bed. The sheets were just laid across the top of each bed with the mattresses completely exposed on all sides. It was only for one night so we decided to make the most of it. We brought the roofbag and ...

... 6 am and drove off in search of the elusive Blue Ridge Mountain sunrise but it was very hazy and never occurred. There is a tremendous expensive real estate development (like Indian Hill outside Cincinnati) in the area, so most of the other horse farms are gone and the charm of the images he was trying to capture was scarred by large "pseudo" mansions." We arrived at Monticello just about 9am and still had to queue up for a short wait for a good tour. Even this early the ...