Our first stop in Virginia was Jamestown. Here we learned about the first colony in America. There’s an archeologist on site that's found many artifacts. They recently found evidence that Pocahontas was married to John Rolph in this spot.
Nearby is Yorktown where the American Revolution ended. The kids had fun make believing on the war field.
I was born in Portsmouth, VA, four decades ago. We moved when I was ten days old and I’ve never been back. I thought it would be fun to be there for my birthday, especially with my mom. She remembered our address and we put it in the GPS. Unfortunately the house wasn’t there, but there were homes on either side of the lot. We drove by the hospital where I was born and had a wonderful lunch.
We made a full Thanksgiving dinner the next day with turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing, and cranberries from Massachusetts in the RV. The only change we made was having a turkey breast instead of a full bird because it wouldn’t have fit into the convection oven. Everything turned out great and the only complaining I heard was from people that had eaten too much!
One bummer about visiting Virginia in time for my birthday was that I missed visiting a couple of friends. I hadn’t thought of them being gone during Thanksgiving.
The last areas we covered in Virginia were Shenandoah National Park and the Blue Ridge Parkway. It was beautiful up there, but I can only imagine how much more so it would’ve been if we were there a few weeks earlier. I’m not complaining though- we have wonderful fall color for months all over the east coast.
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