Hampton Inn Norfolk / Chesapeake

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More Navy Time

A travel blog entry by idahotraveler

The weather has turned cold....I guess it is November. So, we decided to go for a drive and see some of the area inside a warm vehicle! We headed to Norfolk to see the Navy Port and for the last time see the USS Enterprise. The USS Enterprise came into port on Sunday. They are going to decommission this ship, send it off and break it down into scrap metal. Sort of a shame but what do you do with an old and probably ...

Sea Mist at Dam Neck Naval Air Station

A travel blog entry by idahotraveler

... port at Norfolk this Sunday. The Navy is decommissioning this aircraft carrier so we have heard there will be a lot of ceremonies etc. this weekend. We hope to see the ship come in. It is pretty impressive seeing a carrier come into port with all the sailors lined up in their dress uniforms. We are off to discover the area and hopefully have some good pictures to post and stories to ...

Sailing the Chesapeake

A travel blog entry by ruthandpierce

Hello Everyone,

After the storm we took two days to sail from Solomons to Norfolk with an overnight just north of the mouth of the Rappahannock River.

We have a new pocket video recording device and we are experimenting with it. The video that you find in the "photos" section below documents the trip.

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Learning About The Department of Energy

A travel blog entry by 14alexanderh

By: Hope Alexander

Here in Newport News, Virginia is one of many important buildings for the Department of Energy. Located here is the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, also known as Jefferson Lab or even the JLab. Until 1996, it was known as the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility, which is still a name commonly used for the ...

Choosing the More Direct Route Homeward

A travel blog entry by pas_de_deux

... out in the middle of the ocean. Filet of “Sole” for dinner...?

Throughout these first few days we were unsuccessful communicating with anyone via voice on the SSB radio. We could send and receive e-mail, with a bit more trouble than we were used to, but could only receive voice. We could hear Chris Parker on his morning weather nets and were able to get generalized forecasts, but we couldn’t ask him specific routing ...