Our visit to Yorktown, Virginia

Another very interesting day on vacation near the Chesapeake Bay. Started out with Nelda doing laundry at the campground and me posting pictures on my website and checking email. Then left for Gloucester, a short trip from here and to check out some of their historical sites including the Colonial Courthouse, Debtor’s Prison, Jail and other buildings dating back to the Revolutionary War. Then we headed further south on US17 for Gloucester Point to look at Rev. and Civil War trails and campsites in Tyndall Point Park. Stopped for lunch at Oceans 17, a seafood café, and then couldn’t find the park. Signs were missing and it seemed closed so headed on across the York River to the Colonial National Historical Park at Yorktown. Wow! Now that’s an interesting place to come, seeing the battlefield where Cornwallis surrendered to the Americans (with help from the French) and was the last major battle in the War for Independence. We did the whole thing, watched the 15-minute movie in the Visitor Center, and walked to the battlements and down to the town. Saw the Victory Monument and the Nelson House, then drove the auto tours of the battlefield, encampments and the Moore House where terms of surrender were made between Washington and Cornwallis’s 2nd in command (Cornwallis got sick and couldn’t make it himself). We really enjoyed our day and look forward to going to Jamestown and Williamsburg tomorrow. Oh yeah, my Golden Age Passport that I got when Liz worked at Crater Lake got us in free again. That was 10 dollars well spent. Check out our new pictures added to our vacation album at www.pastorpj.com.