After a quick breakfast from the not-so-stacked breakfast bar at the Best Western in Newport News, Connie and I headed toward Colonial Williamsburg. We arrived around 10 and bumbled our way around. The signage at CW is horrible. You can get to CW 15 different ways from nowhere, but one is never sure where they really are until they are right upon it. That is my only complaint about CW and its surrounding areas: they have absolutely the worst signage ever and the maps they offer at visitors centers in and around CW is the worst. As good a navigator as I can be (and have been for many years of traveling), I could not even figure out where I was most of the time. Yes, I did have many detours or off-the-beaten path episodes which embarrassed me to no end in front of Connie. Really, I never get lost or disoriented. CW proved I could.
Aside from the complaint above, CW is more, much more than I ever imagined it would be or from what Connie could recall as a child who visited there so many moons ago. If one can even recall from their dusty memories any of their history lessons, it could mostly be applied here at CW. While I'm sure there is a particular visiting order better than the one I conjured for Connie and I, it would only be off a few steps or stops. Regardless, there is no better way than for one to apply the school-learned knowledge history of our great country than to visit CW. If one even half-pays attention to the plethora of most-learned guides who dress in period clothing in the various tours of houses and asides at CW, one can have many 'Ah-Ha' moments.
More to come in day two ...
Aside from the complaint above, CW is more, much more than I ever imagined it would be or from what Connie could recall as a child who visited there so many moons ago. If one can even recall from their dusty memories any of their history lessons, it could mostly be applied here at CW. While I'm sure there is a particular visiting order better than the one I conjured for Connie and I, it would only be off a few steps or stops. Regardless, there is no better way than for one to apply the school-learned knowledge history of our great country than to visit CW. If one even half-pays attention to the plethora of most-learned guides who dress in period clothing in the various tours of houses and asides at CW, one can have many 'Ah-Ha' moments.
More to come in day two ...
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