May 25, 2011
Wiliamsburg VA to Charlottesville, VA  130 Miles
Day #13

Forgot to mention that the sensor was telling us that the oil pressure 'thing' was not going to alert us if there was a problem...or so they say.  I need an eye rolling smilie here.


Left the American Heritage RV Park at 10:30,  in nice weather, a little too warm, but nice.  We seem to be having exactly the opposite effect on local weather that we had last year.  Then, we brought cold and rain weather breaking records to every town we chose to visit.  This year, it is the high temps falling by the wayside!  Nice.


We took our time, traveling part of the way by the James River Plantation Road  and after we rode the bypass around Richmond on the Interstate, we dropped down to the state road that parallels I64, US50.  Such a short distance between stops gives us the option to go slower and see the beautiful countryside.  And Virginia is indeed beautiful.

Charlottesville KOA

There are few camping areas around Charlottesville, a fact that we find odd because there is so much open land and forests.  We are at the Charlottesville KOA, not too far from the city.  The road in here is very narrow and winding,  a true country road.  This looks like  what  camping should look like, tall trees, fire rings, picnic tables and gravel sites.  I could do without the gravel...It's in a valley so we have NO CELL PHONE SERVICE!  We do have cable TV and WIFI, but it's very slow and we lose the connection frequently.  We knew this prior to booking here, but there's no place else to go.  My sissy dogs aren't fond of the gravel either....

The pedestrian mall, historic Charlottesville



We jumped in the car and rode to the historic downtown section of the city.   We parked and took a stroll down the restored, pedestrian mall.  By this time it was mid afternoon and getting quite hot.  We wanted a cold drink so Jim ran into a pizza place for something.  He returned with glazed eyes and told me that he'd just seen the most awesome pizza sold by the slice...we NEEDED to come back when we were hungry!  Shouldn't be a problem remembering the name,  it's my maiden name....

We spent a quiet night at the campground and watched the American Idol finale...so many stars
of the music world! 


Tomorrow, go see Tom Jefferson's little cottage on the mountain...