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   From: NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com   
      
   In alt.home.repair, on Fri, 4 Aug 2023 11:27:37 -0000 (UTC),   
   "badgolferman"  wrote:   
      
   >micky wrote:   
   >   
   >>I was just down there last weekend.   
   >>   
   >>I went to Washington's Birthplace and Jamestown.   
   >>   
   >>The next day to Yorktown Battle Museum and Yorktown Battlefield (the   
   >>car tour includes the most beautiful woods I've ever seen.)   
   >>   
   >>The next day to the Virginia War Museum and the Norfolk Zoo.   
   >>   
   >>Still a lot of things to see on some future trip.   
   >   
   >We still have a ferry which goes between Surry and Jamestown across the   
   >James River.   
      
   Well, I've been on the Staten Island ferry, but never with a car iirc.   
   But I've been on the White's Ferry at Poolesville Md.  The Potomac is   
   much narrower there than the James River is.   I see here that White's   
   Ferry has been open since 1786, but it closed in 2020 "following a   
   long-running dispute over the fery's Virgian landing site on Rockland   
   Farms."  You'd think that would have gotten settled in over 200 years.   
   After the new owner, 3 counties offered 1.1 million dollars to buy 1.4   
   acres but the owner wouldn't sell, and t he ferry is scheduled to be   
   scrapped.   
      
   > I often take that when out for a leisurely motorcycle   
   >ride.  Then of course there's the Colonial Parkway which goes from   
   >Jamestown through Williamsburg to Yorktown right along the James River   
   >and has some very picturesque scenery.   
      
   That's a story in itself.  Driving through small towns from Maryland Rte   
   301 to Jamestown, I hadn't passed many gas stations, and I didn't stop   
   when I passed one.  And it was getting late, only 90 minutes until   
   closing when I got to Historic Jamestown, so I iddn't have time to get   
   gas, but I'd passed a station only 3 or 4 miles from Jamestown.  When I   
   got to Jamestown I had 16 miles worth of gas, and when leaving I decided   
   to take the 8 mile tour through the peninsula or island east of the   
   settlement.  Now I had 11 miles and I headed for that gas station, but   
   I'm drivign and driving and I don't see it.  I don't see the marina or   
   the mainland.  I try to see where the closest gas station is with my   
   phone but there is no data.   Finally the road turns north, I get off at   
   the first exit, wave at a car going by and ask directions to a gas   
   station.  I had 6 miles of gas.  They directed me to Harris Teeter, only   
   2 miles away.  So I was saved.   
      
   Later on that day I took another part of the Parkway to Yorktown. It's   
   very pretty with tall old trees growing almost right up to the road.  I   
   would guess the Parkway dates to the 50's when they were trying to   
   emphasize the first 2 or 3 tourist things, the only ones that existed   
   then?   
      
   >  Next time you're here make sure   
   >to see the Jamestown Settlement too.   
      
   I dind't know about that until after I'd left, but one cannot do   
   everything in one 3-day weekend.   
      
   > Busch Gardens amusement park is   
   >worth the price of admission.   
      
   Good to know.   
      
   I went back on the Bay Bridge Tunnel which I had never seen before.   
   Across the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay.  Two consecutive tunnels   
   actually.  15 or 20 miles across the water with no place to stop (unless   
   you have an emergency).   (You know this stuff but not all the readers.)   
      
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