The wilds of Virginia and Maryland

We left the Baltimore area for Chancelorsville Virginia. How remote can Virginia be? Well, actually, pretty remote. Lots of horse farms and lovely 2 lane rural roads. Lots of deer on the road to. I thought is was bad on the peninsula. From the evidence we saw, I wouldn't want to drive far at night here. No internet or cell service where we are staying, but it is a great lodge with two bedrooms, kitchen and a fireplace on a lake. Nice drive down visiting two lighthouses.

The next day we drove to the bay and visited Piney Point light and museum; and Lookout Point which was open for the last weekend of the season. We were able to see Point No Point in the distance from here.

Then it was on to Drum Point and Cove point. The gates were closed at Cove Pt, but they really should clean the keypad because Don could tell which buttons were used and scared me half to death when the gate started to open. I was too much of a scardy cat/anal to enter the grounds. Lovely drive through the Maryland and Virginia countrysides.

Monticello was the next destination. This plantation was on the top of a large hill and was very impractical for farming. There were terraced fields, but it was not suprizing that Jefferson died in debt if he was trying to farm a mountain side and build and then spend years extensively remodeling his home. We learned Jefferson was not the inventor we had thought, but he was an avid user of technology. The weather has been grand so far. Today it was 82.

We are staying in the middle of Civil War battlegrounds. On Monday we visited some of the sites. Although abolition of slavery was a just cause, and there was interesting history, the glorification of war and battle strategy was a bit much for us.

All day Tuesday was spent at the Air and Space Museum at Dulles Airport. Wonderful exhibit! We had a tour of the WWII section by a docent that flew in WWII. He must have been 90, and walked like a snail, but had great information and made all the planes in that section (German, Japanese and US) come alive.

We will be staying in Alexandria until Sunday. Great room with full kitchen, living, dining and bedroom. I feel like a queen here and we are a block from the metro stop.