Starting mileage: 550 Starting time: 2:00 pm
Ending mileage: 744 Ending time: 5:30 pm
Travel mileage: 196 Travel time: 2:30 hours
Morning at the hotel was chaotic as there were 200 members of a school chorus staying there, all trying to have breakfast at the same time and then checking out.
We decided to visit "Historic Jamestown" which is a National Park Service facility on the original Jamestown Island. There is also a nearby "Jamestown Settlement" which is a commercial recreation of life in the Jamestown of 1607.
The tour guide was very good, sharing considerable history that was new to us. We hadn't realized that John Smith had produced detailed maps and written detailed books about the original settlement. Although a lot had been written, the actual location of the 1607 fort wasn't discovered until 1994 when an archaeologist had a new theory about the location. Hundreds of thousands of artifacts were found as well as a number of graves. The artifacts and updated historical information are in a new museum on the grounds.
We had a nice picnic lunch on the grounds before driving on a loop around the island which many informational signs. We were glad to be there before the mosquitos came out!
We had planned to take the Interstate to Richmond and then down to Durham but we saw the ferry crossing the James River near Jamestown and decided to take it across instead, making the trip much shorter in miles although not much shorter in time. It was considerably more interesting and we could see the many different species of seabirds along the ferry piers.
We stayed with our friends Bill and Debbie Brooks. I had worked with Bill for several years at IBM Kingston. We had been good friends and had kept in touch regularly.
Day 3 route
Ferry from Jamestown
Pocahantas at Jamestown
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