Virginia - Day One
May. 30th, 2006 10:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eumeliaMy Memorial Day weekend began on Saturday morning, well you could say it was Friday night, but since it was 01:00 in the am it was Saturday. That was when we finished packing, well I finished packing a few hours before, since I was only packing for myself and I’m a pretty light packer when I don’t need to bring a towel, hair products and it’s only a three day sojourn away from home.
We got up when we had planned to leave (that’d be 06:00) we managed to leave the house at 07:20 and even stop at High Point for coffee and we began heading west towards Virginia.
God it’s far.
I slept very well for two and a half hours, waking up for a much needed pit stop, bathrooms, breakfast and the stretching of legs was quite nice.
Apparently I slept so well the suit case left dent marks all over my face (if I were to get lost one would be able to tell who I belonged to because they’d recognize the luggage).
We went onwards, and arrived to our first real holiday stop. I hope no one minds me skipping the complete denouncing of my principles, we ate lunch at Burger King, but at least I wasn’t forced to remain in the car, which is what would have happened if we opted to eat at McDonalds.
The Vegetarian Option is looking better and better everyday.
The holiday stop was the field of the Battle of New Market.
A Civil War monument.
Why is this important to a slightly mocking 21st century 21 year old woman?
Because of these - Scarlet O’Hara, Rhett Butler, Margaret Mitchell.
You got it – “Gone With the Wind”.
The Bible of my family, and while my spiritual guide is the decisively Northern “Little Women”, there is something about the Southern perspective that is overlooked, how the drastic social change affected them, more than just the abolitionism, having read “Gone With the Wind” a few times and seen the movie it is hard not to feel the pain and the blood in New Market field. It was the also known as the Field of Lost Shoes.
Explanation unneeded.
So Jade and I were kinda weepy.
We looked around the much commercialized museum and continued on to Shenandoah National Park. A windy road it was to get to the Skyland resort, but we arrived in one piece and without much fuss.
The rooms were exactly like the rooms one would find in a regular hotel, roughing it we were not.
That was what basically happened on the first day. A hella of a lot of driving, a little sight seeing and arriving at our resort.
We got up when we had planned to leave (that’d be 06:00) we managed to leave the house at 07:20 and even stop at High Point for coffee and we began heading west towards Virginia.
God it’s far.
I slept very well for two and a half hours, waking up for a much needed pit stop, bathrooms, breakfast and the stretching of legs was quite nice.
Apparently I slept so well the suit case left dent marks all over my face (if I were to get lost one would be able to tell who I belonged to because they’d recognize the luggage).
We went onwards, and arrived to our first real holiday stop. I hope no one minds me skipping the complete denouncing of my principles, we ate lunch at Burger King, but at least I wasn’t forced to remain in the car, which is what would have happened if we opted to eat at McDonalds.
The Vegetarian Option is looking better and better everyday.
The holiday stop was the field of the Battle of New Market.
A Civil War monument.
Why is this important to a slightly mocking 21st century 21 year old woman?
Because of these - Scarlet O’Hara, Rhett Butler, Margaret Mitchell.
You got it – “Gone With the Wind”.
The Bible of my family, and while my spiritual guide is the decisively Northern “Little Women”, there is something about the Southern perspective that is overlooked, how the drastic social change affected them, more than just the abolitionism, having read “Gone With the Wind” a few times and seen the movie it is hard not to feel the pain and the blood in New Market field. It was the also known as the Field of Lost Shoes.
Explanation unneeded.
So Jade and I were kinda weepy.
We looked around the much commercialized museum and continued on to Shenandoah National Park. A windy road it was to get to the Skyland resort, but we arrived in one piece and without much fuss.
The rooms were exactly like the rooms one would find in a regular hotel, roughing it we were not.
That was what basically happened on the first day. A hella of a lot of driving, a little sight seeing and arriving at our resort.
