Verkennen (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} verkennen) wrote,@ 2009-07-03 12:15:00 |
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Tours and Detours
Yorktown Fife and Drum Corp
While anchored in a creek off the York River we took advantage of a rental car weekend special and were able to visit Jamestown and Yorktown to get our fill of American History. The living history sites at both towns were interesting and fun as were the accompanying museums.
"Revolutionary War surgeon"
We also toured the battlefield at Yorktown, some revolutionary war era homes and the excavated sites at Jamestown.
Replicas of the Jamestown settlers ships
The local concert band was performing on the grounds of a church in Yorktown so we packed a picnic dinner and proceeded to the church yard with our chairs. We couldn't figure out where we'd sit because the entire grounds were a cemetary. To our surprise everone just set up in and around the gravestones. Paul called it 'Tunes and Tombs.' (ever the comedian)
Having planned to go to the eastern shore for a small town 4th of July celebration at Onancock, we were disappointed to have to detour up to a boatyard in Reedville, Va. for some needed repairs. We had to pull the boat out to replace a prop shaft and motor mounts which had caused us to lose forward and reverse. (slight inconvenience) Paul fixed it enough to get us to the boatyard and now we're on the hard waiting for parts and doing yet more 'boatwork.' There is a silver lining however. We had planned to pull the boat here in August because of their reasonable prices. As Paul was working below on the engine while still at Yorktown, a friend whom we had met 2 years ago on the rivers called to see where we were located. He mentioned another boater who lives in Reedville and said to call him if we ever needed to look for help in the Chesapeake.
We did call, and Walter and Mary have been wonderful to us. They have a lovely home up the creek from the boatyard and they welcomed us with open arms, driving Paul to a machine shop twice, loaning us their car to use, letting us use their shower, and taking us to a concert and picnic in the park and to dinner at their house. We will be enjoying a small town 4th of July celebration after all, here with them in Reedville, so our detour (and living on the hard) has been made much more tolerable than expected. We have been very blessed by other boaters we've met along our journey.
Virginia tobacco field at Jamestown settlement
Yorktown Fife and Drum Corp
While anchored in a creek off the York River we took advantage of a rental car weekend special and were able to visit Jamestown and Yorktown to get our fill of American History. The living history sites at both towns were interesting and fun as were the accompanying museums.
"Revolutionary War surgeon"
We also toured the battlefield at Yorktown, some revolutionary war era homes and the excavated sites at Jamestown.
Replicas of the Jamestown settlers ships
The local concert band was performing on the grounds of a church in Yorktown so we packed a picnic dinner and proceeded to the church yard with our chairs. We couldn't figure out where we'd sit because the entire grounds were a cemetary. To our surprise everone just set up in and around the gravestones. Paul called it 'Tunes and Tombs.' (ever the comedian)
Having planned to go to the eastern shore for a small town 4th of July celebration at Onancock, we were disappointed to have to detour up to a boatyard in Reedville, Va. for some needed repairs. We had to pull the boat out to replace a prop shaft and motor mounts which had caused us to lose forward and reverse. (slight inconvenience) Paul fixed it enough to get us to the boatyard and now we're on the hard waiting for parts and doing yet more 'boatwork.' There is a silver lining however. We had planned to pull the boat here in August because of their reasonable prices. As Paul was working below on the engine while still at Yorktown, a friend whom we had met 2 years ago on the rivers called to see where we were located. He mentioned another boater who lives in Reedville and said to call him if we ever needed to look for help in the Chesapeake.
We did call, and Walter and Mary have been wonderful to us. They have a lovely home up the creek from the boatyard and they welcomed us with open arms, driving Paul to a machine shop twice, loaning us their car to use, letting us use their shower, and taking us to a concert and picnic in the park and to dinner at their house. We will be enjoying a small town 4th of July celebration after all, here with them in Reedville, so our detour (and living on the hard) has been made much more tolerable than expected. We have been very blessed by other boaters we've met along our journey.
Virginia tobacco field at Jamestown settlement
