Springhills Suites Norfolk Virginia Beach

We left McLean about an hour late, but it wouldn't be a roadtrip without lollygagging. Unfortunately, Tim remembered his phone, so we missed out on a side trip to his house. After two hours of driving, we made it to Richmond, where people like to park their bikes in the middle of the road. Also, there are no sparkley martinis or bows of any sort...

We made it to Virginia Beach and there's no snow! Can’t believe it but we were only 2 hours from VB before we had to turn back to DC and was snowed in for 2 days. My cousin’s in-law owns a Pho restaurant so that was what we ate everyday: Pho, Vermicelli noodles and rice. The first day at the restaurant we were treated with wild boar ...

To celebrate our journey to Virginia, Kelsey and I stopped at Bugaboo Creek for dinner. Fortunately, it was exactly on our route south. Kelsey received a gift card on her birthday, and we were fortunate to be traveling right by one of the few Creeks in the area. We enjoyed some fantastic steak, and a nice atmosphere during our leisurely drive so...

Our target date for departure from Norfolk was November 1 when our insurance window opened for transit. In the few preceding days since Dave returned from Arlington we wrapped up final preparations for departure. We visited the local Costco and Harris Teeter grocery for final provisioning of (mostly) perishable goods (all non-perishables were al...

Virginia Beach and Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, USA 08/07/2009-08/09/2009

Virginia Beach was beautiful. It reminded me of Miami Beach with all the people and its shops =). We also visited Busch Gardens and Chesapeake Bay. We ended our day at Chesapeake Bay, where I got a chance to walk along the bridge at the rest stop area.

At Willoughby Harbor Marina, our work continued May through July with more preparations for offshore cruising. We had hoped to travel north up the Atlantic Coast toward Massachusetts during July and August but we had to defer those plans when other family circumstances intervened. So we used the time instead at Norfolk working on the remaining p...

Ok....so, today was an interesting day.

Shockingly enough, it was raining. We had a leisurely breakfast at the Wafflehouse (named as one of Food Networks best 24 Hr restaurants). It was delicious.

Since most of what we were interested in doing in Roanoke was outdoors, we decided to jump in the car and head toward Charlottesville, V...

Finally I'm back! My internet hasn't been working for a few days. I thought it was done, but then eventually I figured out how to reset internet explorer. Then I had to call the hotel's technical support because their network didn't like my computer. Anyway, it was a whole mess, but I'm back now and in my hotel in Norfolk, Virginia. That's righ...

We had good weather this weekend with temperatures in the mid 80s and low 60s at night. This would be the first weekend that we took a "private" (no guests) cruise! We left the marina in mid-morning for a sail to Wilton Creek on the Piankatank River off the Chesapeake Bay. Winds were SSW 5-20 kt. We anchored on Wilton Creek overnight, a very pri...

We made our first successful foray this weekend March 2-4 into boat surface prep in order to apply the boat name and hailing port to the stern at the starboard helm. Dave used the dinghy to remove the port side hull graphics and a damaged area of the hull striping (we were starboard to). From the dock he was able to replace damaged hull striping...