We thank our Hilton Head friends Karla Mark and dog Jessie for a wonderful visit! After many hours spent on the porch, reading, painting (I painted on two canvasses), petting the dog, long walks, eating out at Hilton Head eateries, talking with Mark’s son and family who live and work in Switzerland, did I say eating??? we finally left the family yesterday and drove up to near Virginia Beach which is FULL. Every Virginia Beach hotel I visited online was full!!! We are staying at Emporia Virginia at state road 58 which is the exit from I 95 when we begin the eastward drive into Virginia Beach at a good Best Western with a pool and hot tub, both of which I floated around in yesterday afternoon! We will drive over in about an hour and pick up Francis Skinner for lunch at an Oyster Bar on the north shore called Bubba’s. I think it is where Ray and Francis used to crab on the beach… Chuck met Ray and Francis back in about 1967 when he and Rick Hartman used to stay there when off on leave from the submarine… After the Navy, we visited many times, and Ray and Francis visited us in Miami with Herman. Many of you know them. Ray passed away a few years ago and Francis is very lonely. God bless them. We will then do our 35 minute "shortest drive" routine across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel and spend the night at the Sunset Beach Inn and Grille at the foot of the bridge on the Eastern Shore. Once before we did this shortest drive: We were looking for "Yuk Yuk and Joe’s" an Eastern shore bar that Al’s friend Ray told us about. We found the bar and sat there all afternoon entertained by the "local talent"…. Today we will repeat the trip back and stay in "the only hotel up thissaway" which is what they told us at Yuk Yuk and Joe’s that late afternoon when we needed a close by hotel (if you know what I mean…You don’t want to do the bridge tunnel drunk). It turned out to be a really cool property on the Chesapeake Bay. That afternoon we ate out at the bay-side bar, watched the sun set over the Chesapeake Bay, and had a great evening on the Bay. Repeating…. I’ll tune in later and continue this little journey. God bless you!
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