Travel through History






































Yesterday we toured the Jamestown Settlement in the morning.  The 30 minute informational video at the beginning is totally worth watching.  It’s hard to fathom a several month “boat ride” to get here in 1607 with hopes that everything will work out.  

There are some artifacts from the first settlement, but the buildings and fort are recreations as things were mostly made of wood.  There are also people who work for the park that are dressed in clothing for the time and working as people would’ve around the fort.  There was a guy who loaded and shot a musket.  He warned people to plug their ears, etc and then fired.  It was pretty funny to me how many people jumped when the shot went off.  

We checked out replicas of two of the three boats that came over.  They are modern boats with radar, etc that look like they are from the 1600s.  Very cool ships that have and would’ve had a lot of moving parts with all the sails.  

After our tour, we stopped at Billsburg Brewery.  We split a sandwich and tried some beer and seltzer.  It was a great stop and we recommend them if you are in the area.  The food comes from The Hungry Pug which is a food cart on the property.  We should’ve tried the Wisconsin cheese curds.  They looked really good.  

On to Yorktown along the Colonial Parkway after lunch.  We ended up having to stop for a turtle jam.  We’ve been in bear and bison jams in the western national parks.  This was a new one for us.  Two guys with large sticks trying to get a big snapping turtle out of the road.  One guy ended up picking it up by the tail and scurrying off the road with it.  It was big.  The drive along the parkway is really nice and we recommend doing that too.  

We did the driving tour of the Yorktown Battlefield and downloaded the App that was suggested by the ranger.  I didn’t take a lot of pictures on the tour as they would be hard to explain on the blog or Instagram.  This was the decisive battle where General Washington beat Cornwallis with the aid of the French, which ended the American Revolution.  Freedom from Britain.   Being a history geek, today’s stops were high on my list.  It’s surreal to walk the ground where these significant moments in history occurred.  

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