Keeping Up With The Counters: REVOLUTION AND REVELATION

COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG - Sept. 22 - 24
We left the D.C. area on Monday landing near Colonial Williamsburg. We spent 2 days visiting Colonial Willamsburg, a living history museum. The 300 acre historic district is closed to motorized traffic with only horse-drawn vehicles allowed. The surviving structures in the village date from 1699 to 1790 and have either been restored or reconstructed on their original foundations. Historical reenactors dress, work, and talk as if the 1700's as they demonstrate and explain life in colonial times, about the time before the start of the American Revolution. Private residences are not open to the public.

The town shoemaker creating a new pair of shoes
for me. A girl can never have too many shores.

Taxi service in Colonial Williamsburg.

George Washington (on the horse) reviewing the troops.
And no, the guys in the red coats are NOT "British Red Coats", they are American Revolutionists!

READY, AIM, FIRE!

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Notice Jim (upper right) serving on the jury at Williamsburg Municipal Court. Had he known he would be called into service he would have worn his frilly shirt and wig.

VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA - Sept. 25 -29
We arrived in Virginia Beach on Sept. 25th. Virginia Beach is home to Edgar Cayce's A.R.E. (Association for Research and Enlightenment). Edgar Cayce (1877 - 1945) was a gifted psychic, who, while in a self-hypnotic state/trance would give readings to diagnose medical conditions and treatments. Because he could not remember what he said while "sleeping", his readings about medical conditions/treatments, philosophy, prophesies, religion, and reincarnation where written down by a secretary and transcripts of his thousands of readings are located in the library at the A.R.E. Center. Also on the grounds of the Center is the historic Cayce Hospital. The hospital is now a spa and center for holistic wellness, as well as a school for massage.

Over the weekend, Jim attended "Many Lives, One Soul: Reincarnation, Life Before Life, and Your Soul's Plan" conference at the center. I opted to spend a few hours at the spa getting a relaxing massage and facial. After my spa treatment, I spent the rest of the weekend hanging out at the campground reading, and watching several beer drinking campground residents parade by in their country music blaring golf carts; it was hilarious and entertaining.

I had fabulous massage and facial at the historic Cacye Spa and Wellness Center.

A beautiful labyrinth is in the foreground.

This is a picture of the A.R.E. building where Jim spent the weekend becoming enlightened. A beautiful mediation garden is on the left side of the building.

NEPTUNE FESTIVAL
Also happening the weekend we were in V.B. was the annual Neptune Festival. Sunday afternoon we strolled the boardwalk along the ocean, listening to live music while munching on crab cakes and shrimp.