The tip of the Delmarva Peninsula! Only a few more hours to New Jersey. The $17 toll makes Northampton County by far the county I've paid the most to enter into.
View of the bridge seen on the previous page.
Nothing but water and bridges as far as the eye can see.
Looking north from the south tunnel's south end.
Facts and figures about the bridge-tunnel system.
The USS Wisconsin, docked at Nauticus in Newport News. I didn't visit Nauticus.
The Wisconsin was the first sight on a boat tour of Hampton Roads.
The Wisconsin is one of four Iowa-class battleships - the biggest, best, and last of their kind.
The USS Theodore Roosevelt, the "Big Stick", undergoing maintenance.
The USS Harry S. Truman, with "Give 'Em Hell" painted on the front.
From the top shipbuilding technology of the 20th Century to the end of the 16th: Replicas of two of the three ships that brought settlers to Jamestown in 1607. Photo taken from the third, Susan Constant, the largest. These ships are depicted on the back of the Virginia quarter.
A statue of John Smith lies smack in the middle of the river-facing side of the original James Fort. This is entirely a coincidence. Why? Because until 1994, everyone thought the fort was somewhere in the river! The 21st-century equipment in the back shows that this is an active archaeological dig by the National Park Service.
I should've angled this picture lower to show the original bricks of the original church. It's the foundation, literally, of representative democracy in the New World.
Another marker commemorating establishment of English Common Law. (Hey, I'm a poli sci major and history buff. I'm allowed to reverently gaze at such things.)
Artistic representation of original fort and modern structures. One big thing learned on the tour: The Jamestown colony suffered dramatically in its early years because it began during the worst drought in CENTURIES.
Colonial National Historic Parkway crosses under I-64. It's a jump 174 years into the future, from the establishment of Jamestown...
...to Washington's camp at the Battle of Yorktown.
Surrender Field, where the British lay down their arms to the Americans and French.
In two days, I saw the places where the two largest wars on American soil ended.
Spoils of war.
Day 6 (July 11) was for Jamestown and a driving tour of Yorktown. This is near the end of the day.
Last stop of the day: Yorktown Victory Monument in Yorktown itself. This wasn't built until the 1880s.
Text of one part of the monument and, completely coincidentally, a tall ship sailing by.
Original earthen redoubt at Yorktown, overrun in the final battle. I started Day 7 (July 12) with a tour of the National Park Service's Yorktown site. The tour ran over but I learned a lot about the Marquis de Lafayette, a Frenchman who was enormously popular with Americans after the war and has many places, including Iowa's Fayette County, named after him.
The idea of historic locations being placed on something the original colonists never could have envisioned - reflective road signs seen by vehicles traveling at 70 mph - is something that just kind of seemed notable.
Washington statue in Richmond
State capitol in Richmond
Washington statue inside Richmond
This statue is in the precise spot Lee accepted leadership of the Confederate Army.
Virginia House of Delegates (lower chamber)