We left Feb 16th and got back March 13th, and I have just about gotten things in order so that I could report. Looking at my photos, I am not really impressed with their beauty or artistic merit - many people here seem to do better than I can do. My pictures are mostly just a record of the trip.

Since I have a lot of photos and the trip was over a long period, it will take me many more than one post to detail it all. Feel free to ask questions in the middle, but please don't give up on me before I finish. I'm going to repeat a bit at the start that I already posted because I want the whole trip in one post.

Weds morning February 16th, we did the morning chores and unplugged the modem, and TVs and turned off the water and left about 9. We were using our new GPS, and I had programmed the Asseteague Lighthouse and the Hampton Inn into it already.



We got to the Virginia boarder about 2 and we got maps (Virginia, Chincoteaque, National Seashore, etc). We arrived on Chincoteaque (which the GPS pronounced Chincoty or something like that) at 1424, and I decided to check out the southern visitor's center first. And it was indeed closed. We took a couple photos of the lighthouse from there.



We looked at the beach, but I was saving my energy for the walk to the lighthouse and didn't go out on it. Didn't see any ponies. We also took some photos of the birds in the wildlife refuge. There were supposed to be snow geese, and there were white birds but they were too far away for me to see whether they were geese or swans. And some of the pictures of the birds have the lighthouse in the background.





We got to the lighthouse trail and did walk to it although it took just about every energy unit I had. The trail was mostly crushed stone - Bob said it looked new.





This was taken from as far as I got - Bob is walking around the lighthouse.





On the way back toward the hotel we passed the museum (closed) and the McDonalds where we could see the lighthouse, but I thought we would come back for that later.

When we got to the hotel (we are staying at the Hampton Inn) I downloaded the photos we took (Bob took 11, I took 80) but I kept having to go into the bathroom to meditate. Next time I go I'm taking the phone book in there to read. Bob wasn't enthusiastic about the free supper offered by the Hampton Inn which was soup, chips, cold cut sandwiches and drinks. But I didn't think I could get that far from the bathroom, so in the end that was what we did.