NBNC>SYRNY: May 26-May 27 2014

Monday, May 26, 2014

America, the Beautiful

On this Memorial Day as we remember those veterans who served our country to give us our freedoms, we are surrounded by ghosts of history here in Williamsburg. We followed the Colonial Parkway to Yorktown, following the York River through acres of marshland. We drove through Yorktown, where past and present merely crossed the main road. 

Yorktown Surrender

 During the battles and conflicts of the Revolution, a destructive fire in 1814, and the Civil War there are few reminders of the 18^th century now. But one can sense a ghost-like atmosphere where once armed British forces laid down their weapons and surrendered and became a place where our independence was won.  

We continued our way along the parkway to Jamestown, the site of the first English colony of the early 1600s, as we skirted along the James River. 

Jamestown Island Drive

Once in Historic Jamestowne we continued to Jamestown Island where we followed the drive through stands of beech, hickory, and walnut. We picnic lunched at the Jamestown visitor center enjoying the shade of a stately hickory tree. 

Colonial Parkway

Continuing back along the parkway we figured there would be a whole lot of hurt to the motorhome if we tried going along this route. 

Black Racer Snake

We strolled through a few shops in Williamsburg, found a home that we rented pre-motorhome and returned to camp. However, we did stop at a hardware store, where we picked up a hitchhiker…a black racer snake…who slithered aboard the jeep via the tire well. We could not get to the snake before it decided to glide the inner front tire and we hesitantly peered under the hood when we got to the campground. We are really hoping it went thump thump off the rolling tire and became roadkill on route 607.

Tomorrow we begin our 8-hour schlep northbound to final destination of Green Lakes State Park near Syracuse, where we will level down until the end of June, with intermission of two weekends on Oneida Lake.