If you know Stephanie and myself, you know that we are addicted to US presidents and all that goes with them (see "Presidential Hotties" site on right side of the blog for further proof). So, on the last day in the Williamsburg area we went to the Presidential Park, a haven for us with an obsession. I think the older group of two couples were briefly confused by us, then impressed and listening to us banter about the prez-es and then tired of us. More pictures on the presidents blog. Some highlights:
-Yes, the grand daddy of them all, George himself, who has an high upstanding deportment.
-John Adams. Read the McCullough book and you understand him much more (sneak peek: they are making a movie of that book with Paul Giamatti as John. Steph knew a lot and we saw a set at Williamsburg). He's a fiesty one.
-Stephanie's thoughts on Andrew Jackson.
-Abe.
-T.R. looking at me from a far...
-James Garfield, who we decided has one of the best beards of the bearded presidents.
-Theodore Roosevelt and my feeling for him.
-To-the-point Harry Truman.
Stephanie and I with the hometown boy, Gerald Ford. (Side note: best billboard at his funeral in the G.R. area? Gerald "Our" Ford).
-The strange land of them all.
-We left that afternoon and go on the Chesapeake Bay-Bridge Tunnel, about 18 miles of bridges and tunnels connecting Virginia and the peninsula of VA by Delaware/Maryland. Here's a freighter passing over one of the tunnels. Notice the bridge continues just on the horizon.
-We traveled through 7 states the next day (Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusettes) to get to the cape.
-Going over the Geo. Washington Bridge in New York. We saw NYC from afar (looked kind of small and dingy, but that was from far away) and I actually can say now I've driven through the Bronx.
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