Thoughts...

[kellan_the_tabby]

So much there is to do and see there simply is no way
We're so tired from running about I'd scarcely call it play
We'll die before we're forty 'cause our bodies just can't last
But we'll cram in a lot of fun in the harried leisure class

So as I drove down to Norfolk on Thursday, I passed something on the order of ten to fifteen signs for places I would have loved to stop at, and take time to explore. A few of them I've been to before, but the vast majority of them I haven't. I had a long drive ahead of me and I wanted to see fosveny, so I contented myself with two brief stops: one to take a three-minute walk around a concrete loop-trail at a rest stop, and another, probably under a minute, at one of the 'emergency only' stops on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, just to look out over the water.

Friday Lewis and I drove out to giselle0002's, which took about five hours. Again, we passed a bunch of things I'd've loved to stop and see, but...not enough time, and we wanted to see Gise. I did about half of the drive.

We did get out to do a couple cool things on Saturday. We drove out to visit the local group's under-construction castle, then walked along Main Street in Mt. Airy and shopped a bit. We drove out to 'the rock' (a local white granite quarry, really cool) and up to the Blue Ridge, but Lewis and I were too tired to talk the Trail at all.

Sunday we drove home. About a seven hour drive, of which I did half. Lots and lots of signs for cool stuff, some of which we've been saying 'sometime we'll stop there' for the last couple of trips down to Gulf Wars, as well.

It was a good weekend. But if we'd just had a little _time_, it could have been so much more.

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*sighs*

This all sounded really good and stuff in my head, but now that I've written it...it just sounds like me whining. Dammit. I'm not trying to whine; I'm trying not to whine. But it just feels like I spend too damn much of my time moving too fast to _enjoy_ anything.

Comments

[shrieking-ell.livejournal.com]

Hey, you were in my neck of the woods! You might have passed right by me!

What did you want to see and missed? (My personal fave in the area are the Revolutionary war earthworks at Yorktown)

[kellan_the_tabby]

Chicoteague and Assateague - that's the one I've been to before, but it was a long time ago. Several museums, historical and natural. I don't remember most of them, unfortunately. I would have liked some time to drive to the shore and just sit and look at the sea; I did get a little time on Friday to do that, at least.

And, yeah. I thought of you on the way down, and visiting for a bit would have been another cool thing...