May 13, 2007

Hello All - Happy Mother's Day!

We are at the Atlantic Yacht Basin in Chesapeake, Virginia - just south of Norfolk. Tomorrow we'll head for Hamption Roads and North. We plan to spend a week or so on the Chesapeake Bay and then fly home from Baltimore for the last week in May.

Yesterday we rented a car and drove across the Norfolk Harbor to Hampton Roads and down to the Dismal Swamp and Elizabeth City. I'm posting some pictures - note the surprise at the end of a hiking trail in the visitor's center - a mailbox with a diary in it. I'll try posting a picture of one of the pages - what fun. The canal in the swamp was started by George Washington who owned some of the property in the 1700's and needed a way to ship timber. During the 1800's it was a place where escaped slaves lived. I can't imagine how anyone could have lived there. And it definately isn't dismal! Check it out on Google - it's really a facinating place.

See you out there somewhere. . .

Ann & Bob