Virginia Beach, VA - May 19, 2003
HHamp5246
heavy leather jacket to walk the dogs this morning. I was hoping to see the
sunshine, not even close.
Yesterday I drove from Cape Hatteras to Virginia Beach. The drive was
dreadful, it rained hard the whole way. I guess I should look on the
brightside, it washed all the salt off the truck and trailer and we arrived
unscathed. I'm glad I am not driving on super slabs, having trucks go by in
that rain would have been unnerving, at least we are taking our time. Some
people make fun of me because I only go about 100 miles a day, but I think they
miss too much inbetween points when they travel any more.
After leaving the campground we just went north up the Outer Banks, it was
pretty desolate until Nag's Head. I was hoping to see some wildlife passing
through the Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge, but they must be hunkered down
in the bad weather. Took a big bridge over the Oregon Inlet and passed another
lighthouse, the Bodie Island Lighthouse. Oddly, this one is also striped, like
the hatteras one but the stripes go sideways instead of being slanted like a
barber pole. Passed the exit to Roanoke Island, I would have stopped but the
weather made getting out of the truck too unappealing.
Nag's Head is big, and busy. Many large shopping centers, many restaurants and
bars. I saw a lot of lifesize fiberglass Arabian horses. Like other towns
that have lifesize critters they were all painted up artistically. Towns do
this as fund raisers. They have artists paint them, then auction them off for
charity. I remember a town in Texas had Longhorn cattle all around, Whitefish
Montana had Moose and Ocala has Thoroughbred horses. I'm not sure why
Arabians, but I assume they have horses to represent the Nag part of Nag's
Head.... I'm sure my friends with Arabs are thrilled to hear about this. <g>
I was headed for the Coast to Coast resort in Virginia Beach and put the
address in MapQuest. The directions got me here but took me the shortest route
which involved about 10 narrow little backroads through residential areas. I
finally found it after 40 minutes of weaving around and it turns out if I had
continued on the highway it would have brought me right to the road I turned
off to get here. Oh well, it was a pretty ride, many horse farms, many
interesting houses.
I backed into my site, unhooked and turned on the heat pump. It was 60 in the
trailer!
Today started with me in Verizon's store, discussion my cell phone problems
with the tech. We finally straightened it out after about an hour. I ended up
with a new phone as the charging port on mine had gone bad and the cable I use
to connect to the internet was only connecting sometimes. Then I had to go to
Petsmart for dog and cat food and flea stuff and Walmart for some food. Another
miserable day. I'm sure Virginia Beach is lovely someplace, but when it's cold
and damp and windy and cloudy and you are spending the day on the main
highways... it's hard to imagine. I did find the area where the big hotels are
along the beach, might have even checked the beach out in my hooded sweatshirt
and leather jacket, but I couldn't find any place to park that didn't cost
$5.00. I wasn't paying that just to take a look.
It's now a few minutes past 7:00 pm and the sun just peeked out from behind the
clouds for a few minutes, that's a good sign. Tomorrow we go across the
Chesapeake Bay bridge and on up to Chincoteague. A day or two there then on to
Rehoboth Beach, DE...then another ferry to Cape May, NJ.
Hunter
Wes Stewart
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|On 19-May-2003, hham...@aol.com (HHamp5246) wrote:
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|> All I want to know is, what the hell happened to summer?
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|It's in Phoenix! Last Saturday we hit 104 and we're still over a month away
|from the "official" start of summer. :-(
A local Tucson TV station has an annual "Ice Break" contest, where the
winner is the person who picks the day, hour and minute when the
temperature first hits 100. This year it was Saturday at 12:48 PM.
The high for the day (a new record) was 103.
The "Ice Break" comes from the idea that the ice on the now almost
permanently dry Santa Cruz River doesn't thaw until the temperature
reaches 100 degrees.
Kenn Smith
talkng with a friend of mine who lives maybe five miles from the park
where you are and he was grousing about the weather - it's keeping him
off of the golf course.
We stayed at that C2C park last year and, yes, it is way the hell and
gone out in the middle of nowhere on some pretty narrow and winding
roads. I remember when they started that place, like twenty years ago of
so, and were inviting folks out to take a look and buy in. I thought,
"Why would anyone want to drive all the way out there?" I like to read
USA Today when we're on the road and I think it was about a fifteen
minute drive to the closest place which stocked it.
Have a good trip across the bridge tomorrow - it's an interesting drive.
GBinNC
>On 19-May-2003, hham...@aol.com (HHamp5246) wrote:
>
>> All I want to know is, what the hell happened to summer?
>It's in Phoenix! Last Saturday we hit 104 and we're still over a month away
>from the "official" start of summer. :-(
It sure ain't summer in the mountains of NC.
It's foggy and 50 right now (after 11 p.m.), and that's the high for
the day. Been rainy and chilly for several days. This is very unusual,
though, for this time of the year.
GB in NC
Nadyne Nelson
Victorian homes. Enjoy!
--
Nadyne Nelson
nad...@prospectiveplanning.com
Lena
"HHamp5246"
> Tomorrow we go across the
> Chesapeake Bay bridge and on up to Chincoteague. A day or two there then
on to
> Rehoboth Beach, DE...then another ferry to Cape May, NJ.
Hope you have plans to hunker down somewhere over the Memorial Day weekend.
Wouldn't want to get caught without reservations or in traffic in the MD,
DE, NJ area at that time.
--
Lena
lenaga...@hotmail.com
put hotmail in the subject line to get thru the filters
Gravy
lighthouse, the Bodie Island Lighthouse. Oddly, this one is also striped,
like
the hatteras one but the stripes go sideways instead of being slanted like a
barber pole.
They all have different, large, easily identifiable patterns so that seamen
could tell where they are... probably not necessary in the age of the GPS.
HHamp5246
writes:
>Hope you have plans to hunker down somewhere over the Memorial Day weekend.
>Wouldn't want to get caught without reservations or in traffic in the MD,
>DE, NJ area at that time.
I'm working on it. I can stay here if I can't find anything further north. I
do have an invite to stay in a driveway in NJ, but I'm afraid the weather will
be bad for the ferry crossing. I'm not getting on a ferry in choppy water.
Hunter
HHamp5246
grizzl...@webtv.net (Kenn Smith) writes:
>We stayed at that C2C park last year and, yes, it is way the hell and
>gone out in the middle of nowhere on some pretty narrow and winding
>roads. I remember when they started that place, like twenty years ago of
>so, and were inviting folks out to take a look and buy in. I thought,
>"Why would anyone want to drive all the way out there?"
Out here? Now there's a super Walmart and huge shopping center not 3 miles
from the resort.
Hunter
HHamp5246
>They all have different, large, easily identifiable patterns so that seamen
could tell where they are... probably not necessary in the age of the GPS.>
Ah, thank you. Of course.
Hunter
GBinNC
<hot_...@hotmailremovetosendmail.com> wrote:
>They all have different, large, easily identifiable patterns so that seamen
>could tell where they are...
Yeah, right.
Since when does semen need a lighthou -- oops, never mind. <g>
GB in NC
Gravy
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HHamp5246
>>
>> GB in NC
>
I remember many years ago when Frank Sinatra was honeymooning with Mia Farrow
off the coast of Martha's Vineyard.... they were on a yacht and one of the
sailer's went overboard and drown....
The headline in one of the NY papers was...
Sinatra loses seamen in the Atlantic.
Hunter
Kenn Smith
between it and NAS Oceana besides strawberry fields and open land.