We are at the KOA just south of Charlottesville. We have hook ups, a pool, Laundromat, showers and internet, but no phone. Kind of nice after all the park service campsite with no hookups. But the campsites are bigger in the parks. This is a nice shady KOA.
The bus in our site. I keep the tortilla chips in the washer so they won’t get crushed when we drive around. I had to take them out to run a load of wash.
This is Zoe. She belongs to our neighbors. The are French Canadian, and don't speak a lot of English. They have a motorcycle and have spent the last couple weeks riding on the Blue Ridge Parkway and Shenandoah. This is a statue of George Clark, the brother of William Clark of Lewis and Clark. George explored the North West.
My latest basket. It has the pine needle caps exposed. It is my first attempt at this and it is a little rough, but ok. The front of Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's plantation, where he lived when he was not serving his 32 years in public affairs from 1770 until his death in 1826. He was our third president, two terms, author of the Declaration of Independence and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom and Father of the University of Virginia. He was a delegate, congressman, governor of Virginia, minister to France, secretary of state, and vice president. As president he made the Louisiana purchase and sent Lewis and Clark on their expedition.
The back of Monticello, as seen on the back of the nickel. Underneath the terraces on the sides are the ‘dependencies’- the kitchen, beer cellar, storage cellar, laundry, wine cellar and slaves quarters.
The kitchen.On the left are the ‘burners’, there is room for a fire under each one.
The vegetable garden. It is 1000 feet by 80 feet. With a small pavilion built in the middle. The vineyard. He was quite the horticulturist, experimenting with new plants and different strains of plants to see which grew best in the area.
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My plantation pose in the garden pavilion. The North Pavilion was the first building built and he and his new wife lived there till Monticello was finished.
Reflection of Monticello. Jefferson's grave, and family grave yard.
This is Ash-Lawn, the estate of James Monroe. We didn’t have the energy to tour another estate, so we checked it our from the road.
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