Hey all! For those of you who weren't raised in the south that means hello. I want to tell you first if you are thinking of traveling full time you have to have a double refrigerator and a washing machine in your RV. Okay that being said, I have so much from weeks past to share with you. You will find as I post I tend to skip around. Sorry. The way my mind works. I want to tell you about our trip to Fredericksburg last week. At least 2 hours away but Virginia is beautiful, lush and green with lots of fields planted in corn and many forest along the roads. We take backroads just following our GPS and as I mentioned lots of waterways with the rivers. On these rivers many Virginia's own  homes, campers in campgrounds with added porches. These costs in our campground rent all year permenantly about $3500. Wow! I think a pretty good deal for a weekend home. Anyway, back to Fredericksburg -Many famous battles fought there. I thought interesting that George Washington was born on their family farm across the Rappahannock River. His mother was Mary, the 2nd wife of George's father. He had older step siblings and actually his older step brother built Mount Vernon. Mary was very well thought of in Fredericksburg with a college named for her and a monument constructed for her,etc. George moved her into town before the the Revolutionary War and her house still stands. Also his sister had a plantation home that is now in the middle of the Old District. She married one of the Lewis of Lewis and Clark. The Old town district of Fredericksburg is vibrant with lots of old charm and interesting shops. As I mentioned before most of the shops carry the wares of the various artists on consignment.  Lots of talented people in this area. As a side note Jeffrey and I met a new friend on the beach last week and she told us about the beautiful picture frames she covers with seashells. In fact she had been out kayaking-actually cruising along the shoreline for shells and when she came ashore we struck up a conversation. Anyway, last night we ran into her again in the campground and we mentioned we had looked for her work in some of the shops in Matthews - long story short she brought us one of her pieces. It is absolutely beautiful. People amaze me. Back to Fredericksburg, you should take the trolley tour and also visit the Confederate Cemetery. I believe they said 4300 soldiers were buried their with only 2300 being identified. It also is still used today for burials. Also, we ate lunch at Brock' s on the Rappahannock River out on the deck. The Amtrak train traveled across the bridge next to the restaurant carrying commuters to DC and Richmond. DC is 50 miles away from Fredericksburg and Richmond is 55 miles away. When you travel around Virginia you will notice how many commuters there are into the cities and how many work for our government.  Also I see lots of retired couples. Back to Fredericksburg, the different generals burned all of the bridges down during the Revolutionary War so the colonist built wooden rafts to cross. One can be seen on the shores over at Washington's home farm. I'm closing for now. Jeffrey wants to eat lunch.