Today we went back to Jamestown Settlement which is a state park. There is a huge museum which depicts the history of Jamestown with stories and artifacts. They have an Indian Powhatan village with people describing how they lived at the time of Jamestown in 1607.
There was a replica of the fort and the houses inside as well as people demonstrating live there.
They also had full sized replica ships which brought the settlers and we could go into them.
A fun and informative day even though it was cool and windy.Day 77 Sunday November 6
We took today off from sightseeing. After breakfast we went to St. Olaf’s Catholic Church for Mass. We then spent the day cleaning and tiding up the motor home by vacuuming, sweeping, and cleaning the bathroom, etc.
Day 78 Monday November 7
Today we went to Yorktown, where George Washington and the Continental Army and the French besieged the British army and made them surrender. There was a place which had a nice museum and an reconstructed army camp and a family farm of the period.
We drove around the battlefield looking at the sight of George Washington’s field command post
, the surrender field
and British, Continental and French army positions.
Day 79 Tuesday November 8
Slept in late and goofed off all day. Ahhhh.
Day 80 Wednesday November 9
We went into Colonial Williamsburg and listened to “Patrick Henry” talk about himself and his involvement in the American Revolution.
The actor was very entertaining.
We also went to the coffee shop and had chocolate with the owner, the silversmith, the millinery,
and the joiner. We ate lunch in one of the restored taverns. Afterwards we did a little shopping, buying a suitcase at Good will for our trip to Mexico. We made a nice chicken dinner.Day 81 Thursday November 10
We decided to take a look at the country side today. We headed Northeast out of Williamsburg and decided to head for a nature center on the Chesapeake Bay. Had a hard time finding it so we went to the Post Office to ask for directions. Closed for lunch. An older lady was in her car so I asked her for directions. She said follow me and she took us there. She then invited us to her house for a good view. Well we ate our lunch in the park which had old restored fishing boats and a nice museum with models of many different kinds of ships.
Afterwards we headed to the lady’s house and showed us her view which was very nice and her house, octagonal shaped like local light houses. On the way home we stopped for gas and the truck next to us had baskets of oysters freshly removed from the bay and he was nice enough to sell us some. Appetizers for dinner. Yumm.Day 82 Friday November 11 Happy 11-11-11
We left Williamsburg and headed East on I-64 through Newport News and under the water on I-646 to I 64 again. We took highway 168 south into North Carolina a toll road costing $4.00. Stopped in the visitor center for maps. Headed South on 168 to highway 34 for 3.5 miles. Then South on Indian Town Road for 8 miles, then right on a small road for 1.5 miles to Union River RV park taking space 12. A nice park with a five acre lake.
Drove 102 miles.
Day 83 Saturday November 12
Today we went to Cape Hatteras, the most Eastern part of the United States. The weather was great with temperature around 60 degrees and a light breeze and no clouds. We ate lunch at Cape Point watching the surfers and fishermen. We also collected some pretty shells. The light house at the cape has an apparently well known black and white spiral design.
On the way down the Outer Banks, we saw the remnants of hurricane Irene with debris still piled up along side the road and mangled trailers. Some parts of the road had also been washed out. We drove a little further West to the small berg of Frisco where there was a fantastic Native American museum. Stopped and got some groceries and ate dinner at local restaurant which had been recommended to us. We had alligator chunks for appetizers and shrimp for the main course. A very fun day.Day 84 Sunday November 13
Today we went to Kitty Hawk, site of the Wright brother’s first airplane flight.
They had markers at the distances of the four flights they made in that December, 1903. The place was special in that it was the first design that could control all three aspects-pitch, yaw and roll. They had made several glides with which they tested the roll concepts in a thousand flights before putting in a motor.
The park service had a very fun program.
After that we went to Roanoke Island which is between the Outer Banks, noted locally as OBX, and the mainland. On this island in 1586, an English colony was established. They did find the original fort site (reconstructed after archeological dig).
Two years after founding, it had vanished with no trace of the inhabitants and so was not considered the first British colony in America as that went to Jamestown. On the way home we stopped and walked on the Atlantic ocean beach for a while. 
Ah, another nice day of sightseeing in the sunny weather.
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