Flying the Flag
We just finished our East coast odyssey and it's good to be home to recharge our batteries. Helen should be more tired than Kitty or I as she ran the Virginia Beach half marathon which started at 0700 and the 0 stands for "Oh my god it's early!".
The day before we went to the Virginia Living Museum where we saw native Virginian animals and we got to play with a rat snake and then relaxed in the hotel after trolling round the area to find a decent restaurant that was actually open.
After the run, and after she had finished her beer, Kitty and I drove Helen back to the hotel in a surrey (a our wheeler bike) that didn't have a fringe in top ... and we even took the brake off.
For once the wind was right and we flew our stunt kite which we got pretty good at and ended up taking out another kite and an inattentive seagull.
On the Monday we decamped to New York City in the remains of a tropical storm and decided to avoid the holiday traffic and take the path less travelled via the Cape May Lewes Ferry taking in Delaware, Maryland and New Jersey in the process. Incidentally New Jersey was so named because Sir John Berkley and Sir George Carteret received a royal charter for a colony in the new land and named this colony for the island of Jersey in the English Channel. Carteret had been born on Jersey and had spent several years as Lieutenant Governor of the island.
The day before we went to the Virginia Living Museum where we saw native Virginian animals and we got to play with a rat snake and then relaxed in the hotel after trolling round the area to find a decent restaurant that was actually open.
After the run, and after she had finished her beer, Kitty and I drove Helen back to the hotel in a surrey (a our wheeler bike) that didn't have a fringe in top ... and we even took the brake off.
For once the wind was right and we flew our stunt kite which we got pretty good at and ended up taking out another kite and an inattentive seagull.
On the Monday we decamped to New York City in the remains of a tropical storm and decided to avoid the holiday traffic and take the path less travelled via the Cape May Lewes Ferry taking in Delaware, Maryland and New Jersey in the process. Incidentally New Jersey was so named because Sir John Berkley and Sir George Carteret received a royal charter for a colony in the new land and named this colony for the island of Jersey in the English Channel. Carteret had been born on Jersey and had spent several years as Lieutenant Governor of the island.
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