It’s not very far from Charlottesville to Poquoson but you have to go through Richmond to get there.  After all the traffic yesterday, I was double extra glad that today is Saturday and the traffic was light.  It was a gray day, a little cool with spitting rain off and on throughout the ride.  I made sure my boots weren’t going to get wet and took a chance with the rest of it.  I was a little wet by the time I got here but it wasn’t bad.

This is a shot from I-64 between Richmond and Norfolk.  Some interstates are better than others.  In this part of the country, if you’re not on an interstate you’re on what amounts to a surface street, going from small town to small town with little to no open space between them.  So what I try to do is pick the best interstate – lesser of two evils.

What brings me to Poquoson is a couple of friends that I’ve had since my Air Force days.  The kind of friends that you can not see or talk to for years. and pick up right where you left off all those years ago.  Don & Judy came here for Don’s last active duty assignment and decided to stay.  Poquoson is a very nice comfortable little town at the end of the peninsula; it’s the kind of place you drive “to” not “through”.  They have been great friends over the past nearly 40 years and it was fun to spend a day and a half catching up.

On Sunday we went to church with Brian (Don & Judy’s son) and his wife Ronda (not Rhonda – ra-Honda) and their children.  After church we headed over to their house for a BBQ. The beer, food and company was outstanding.  Just look at those ribs!!

Brian and Ronda live close enough to a small lake that the ducks often stop by their front yard on their excursions for a handout.  Today, mommy duck brought her new ducklings over to show them where they can come for a free meal. 

it was a great couple days, as it always is.  Until next time…