Jekyll Island and Virginia
Sunday, May 24, 2009
A very overdue update for the past two days....the days have been busy and each night we've been exhausted and headed straight to bed. I'll pick up where we left off in Brunswick, GA.
Jekyll Island
We were so tired from the night before that we failed to wake up at 5:45 to make it to Jekyll Island in time to see the sunrise. Instead we arrived around 7:45 (the time we were originally planning to leave). We ended up spending 2 hours on the island including a walk along Driftwood Beach and a drive through the historic district where J.P. Morgan and others used to vacation and where the Federal Reserve was created in the early 1900s. There are dozens of pictures we took in the Photos section of the site, along with this short video of the beach...still as peaceful and unspoiled as when I had visited it 15 years or so prior.
After Jekyll Island, we started heading up I-95 north towards Savannah and Charleston. For most of the way it was pouring with rain.
Because of the pouring rain and being several hours late out of Jekyll Island, we decided to not stop in Savannah and Charleston. As we moved north and approached Charlotte though, the sun came out.
Shortly after getting through the Charlotte traffic, we pulled into a rest area and put down the top for the rest of the way up to Virginia.
We arrived in Virginia around 8 and had a great dinner with the grill. Being very tired from the long day, we both went to bed shortly after we finished dinner around 10:30.
Virginia
The following morning we headed off to spend the day at Claytor Lake. We stopped along the way at a Walmart, which definitely was a highlight of the stay in Virginia and Tawana's first trip ever to one. We stocked up on lots of supplies here, from an extra bag for all the things we'd shipped to VA to a cooler for the car. After that, we were off to the Lake.
We stopped at a place on the side of the lake to pick up some lunch which we took back out to the middle of the lake to eat, then decided to try our time honored tradition of casting fishing lures into the water for several hours in the futile hope that a fish might bite them.
As we lost ourselves to our own thoughts and the tranquility of the lake, time flew by and before we noticed, it was past six and had to head back to the dock to head home for dinner and bed for the long day we have tomorrow. We did manage to take a quick walk around the neighborhood before dinner which gave us a chance to snap some pictures of the sunset over the fields which border their subdivision. which I'll finish this post with before heading to bed in preparation of the long day ahead of us tomorrow. The picture count is now over 100, you can find them all by clicking the Photos link at the top!
Jekyll Island
We were so tired from the night before that we failed to wake up at 5:45 to make it to Jekyll Island in time to see the sunrise. Instead we arrived around 7:45 (the time we were originally planning to leave). We ended up spending 2 hours on the island including a walk along Driftwood Beach and a drive through the historic district where J.P. Morgan and others used to vacation and where the Federal Reserve was created in the early 1900s. There are dozens of pictures we took in the Photos section of the site, along with this short video of the beach...still as peaceful and unspoiled as when I had visited it 15 years or so prior.
After Jekyll Island, we started heading up I-95 north towards Savannah and Charleston. For most of the way it was pouring with rain.
Because of the pouring rain and being several hours late out of Jekyll Island, we decided to not stop in Savannah and Charleston. As we moved north and approached Charlotte though, the sun came out.
Shortly after getting through the Charlotte traffic, we pulled into a rest area and put down the top for the rest of the way up to Virginia.
We arrived in Virginia around 8 and had a great dinner with the grill. Being very tired from the long day, we both went to bed shortly after we finished dinner around 10:30.
Virginia
The following morning we headed off to spend the day at Claytor Lake. We stopped along the way at a Walmart, which definitely was a highlight of the stay in Virginia and Tawana's first trip ever to one. We stocked up on lots of supplies here, from an extra bag for all the things we'd shipped to VA to a cooler for the car. After that, we were off to the Lake.
We stopped at a place on the side of the lake to pick up some lunch which we took back out to the middle of the lake to eat, then decided to try our time honored tradition of casting fishing lures into the water for several hours in the futile hope that a fish might bite them.
As we lost ourselves to our own thoughts and the tranquility of the lake, time flew by and before we noticed, it was past six and had to head back to the dock to head home for dinner and bed for the long day we have tomorrow. We did manage to take a quick walk around the neighborhood before dinner which gave us a chance to snap some pictures of the sunset over the fields which border their subdivision. which I'll finish this post with before heading to bed in preparation of the long day ahead of us tomorrow. The picture count is now over 100, you can find them all by clicking the Photos link at the top!
