Well, here’s hoping that all had a great and safe Christmas holiday. I know that we certainly did. We left our home in the Newport News, Va neighborhood of Kiln Creek around 7ish on the morning of December 24th, and headed out I-64 to connect with the I-95 interstate north. We do our Christmas Celebration on Christmas eve to allow my son and his family to spend Christmas Day with his wife’s family.
We had hoped to make the trip with minimal travel constraints and were pretty successful for the majority of the distance up the infamous I-95. Our GPS took us up to the exit for VA123 and then onward to the Loudoun County Parkway and my daughter Kurby’s home.
Gathering together with my small family (daughter Kurby, son Cliff, daughter-in-law Becky, granddaughters, Rebecca, Hattie, and Camilla; and Phyllis, Cliff and Kurby’s mom.), we spent several hours talking, catching up with everyone and exchanging small gifts. Then came the Christmas dinner food. The old skipper was not cautious with the intake, since it was a holiday feast.
At around half past three pm, we gathered up our goo0dies, and said our farewells until the next time. The Bride ( still consider her the bride, cause it’s only been over 40 years together at this point) once again took the helm of our pretty blue Buick SUV and pointed her nose southward toward our home. Once again, we were blessed with a reasonable amount of traffic crowding, excepting the section between the DC area and Fredericksburg. Once we cleared that constant jam up, our path was clear, and we were able to make the voyage home without problems and arrived safely at our home.
Christmas Day dawned with clear skies again. We had a nice Christmas Day with a great homemade Spinach/Bacon/Mushroom Quiche for our Christmas Breakfast. We then spent most of the day watching seasonal movies and the Christmas Dinner that Charlotte prepared. Yum, along with homemade desserts the Christmas Day feast was wonderful.
So, at the end of the day, we had a very good Christmas holiday. Monday was also a quiet day for us, since most of the country was also taking that day as an extension for the Holiday. We celebrated one more holiday at our new home in the Tidewater area of southeastern Virginia and let those 20+ degree temps stay outside.
Once things warm back up, we will look into the idea of more Hampton Roads Day Trips.
Here’s hoping that we survive the changes in our current Congress.
Author: harv1941
Just a summary, I am 84 years of age, retired in July 2013 and settled down to promoting the dangers of bacterial meningitis, which killed my beloved son, Mike in 2009. My wife, Charlotte, and I embarked on an adventure of live aboard cruising, aboard a large Blue Water motor yacht. While our beginning was rather fraught with hurdles, we continued to look forward to the day we moved aboard the Misty Lady and cruise the eastern seaboard and associated waterways. After more than four years of life aboard this Bluewater Motor Yacht, I developed an advanced problem due to interaction with medications and experienced rather frightening balance problems. Therefore, getting on and off the yacht was fraught with danger of falling between the docks and the boat's hull. Walking the docks was also problematic considering that our yacht club docks were all floating docks and my balance problem was a danger during the walk from our yacht's docking slip to the clubhouse or out to the DC Wharf facilities and our car housed in the yacht club's reserved garage. SO, we had to regretfully put the Misty Lady up for sale and move back on shore. We moved on shore, first into a condo apartment in Alexandria, then after two years there, we relocated to the city of Newport News, in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia. Our original desired location was in the city of Hampton, Virginia, which is the oldest English-speaking settlement in the United States having been established originally in 1610. My ancestors came to this country through this settlement in the mid 1600s and lived in that area for around 100 years before beginning a migration of one portion of our family toward the west.
I looked forward to moving back to this area and exploring the roots of my family, both maternal and paternal ancestry, but we found a great house in the Newport News area and became ensconced in the terrific neighborhood of Kiln Creek. My wife, being still actively employed, received a substantial offer in a position with a government contractor firm back up in Northern Virginia. So we put the Newport News house up for sale, receiving and accepting an offer withing two days. We then relocated back up to the city of Alexandria and into another high rise condo. My wife reached a point where considerations for retirement were becoming very important. She indicated that she really didn't want to retire in Alexandria, so once again we began a house search in the Tidewater area, this time in the City of Williamsburg and in a community restricted to 55+ age owners. We found the ideal location, initiated the sale and closing for our retirement home. We then put our condo on the market. Alas, the market was not as robust as before so we had to change asking price a couple of time, but finally the Alexandria Condo was sold. Now we are set to enjoy the great locations found here in the Tidewater/Hampton Roads area, considering that we are history buffs and there are literally hundreds of historical sites in this segment of our nation. Of course living in Williamsburg is the epitome of history living life.
So, now we are in our retirement home, in a great retirement type community. A great clubhouse with a fine dining restaurant, a grill/pub, an award winning PGA designed golf course and miles of walking trails. Looking forward to my wife's eventual full retirement and the two of us visiting all up and down the east coast historical spots.
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