Jamestown and Fredricksburg.

Yesterday was our last day to visit with Brent. We took Brent and his friend Christine to Jamestown which is the first permanent settlement (English) settlement in the new world. We where able to go on replicas of the boats that they came on. It sure doesn't look like a fun trip. They basically came as an investment by a company in England that wanted to come and find richs for the company. Of course that did not pan out for the investers. It was a touch and go interprise for a number of years. Originally it was the Capitol of Virginia but when that was moved to Williamsburg and then to Richmond that left Jamestown out of the loop. While in Jamestown I had a fly that was driving me crazy trying to bite me. Paul saw me swatting away at it and noticed I had a tick bitting my leg right behind the knee. We went into the visitor center and borrowed a pocket knife and a pair of tweezers. Paul tried to dig it out but couldn't get it so he tried the tweezers and after keeping pressure on it, it finally popped out. That evening we found 3 ticks in our trailer so we have been freaked out about ticks every since. While we were at Jamestown,(,a thunder storm approached and they asked us all to head into the indoors until it passed. It took up some of the valuable time we had to spend there and we never got any rain and the storm went another way. We were still able to see some of the recreations of the indian village and settler villages. This morning we needed to get back on the road so we got up at 5:00 this morning to drive to where Paul left off on his route. He started riding about 7:15 and had 103 miles to ride today. He got into camp about 4:30. This was a hot and tiring day for him, especially since it has been in the upper 80's most of the day. Hopefully after a shower and a good rest we will recuperate. When he got here we went into Fredricksburg to the Costco where we had preordered a tire for the truck. It was nice to see Brent but it is time to make tracks to the North, maybe it will be cooler there.