I’m really not feeling well so my entry for today is this image, probably my favorite photo taken down in Williamsburg, VA. Framed in the image is one of the colonial re-enactors awaiting the fife & drums corps on the courthouse green. It’s a big event most days in the historic area, and one of my…
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A Son of Thunder
One of the most compelling reasons I head down to Williamsburg as often as I do is the bookstore located in the Williamsburg visitor’s center. I love browsing the shelves, speaking with the excellent manager, and taking home a stack of books heavier than I can carry. Some times when I head down to the…
Revelations
I love this photo from our Williamsburg trip, so I made a comic about it. It gave me a chance to play with a new release of Strip Designer.
Vacations and Behavioral Change
I love going on vacations for many reasons, but my favorite might be the chance to track the changing behavior-patterns of vacationers over time. Yes, I’m a geek (and probably a nerd) – I can’t help it. The first “vacation” I ever took with my wife was our honeymoon to Williamsburg, VA. As we prepared…
Let someone else explain it…
The gentleman in this video did a wonderful job explaining why going to Williamsburg is such a joy for me. Frankly, I’m coming to see that the mass of people who are unable to be moved by either history or narrative is not a matter of bad education – it’s an illness of the soul. …
Why I keep coming back…
My wife and I were discussing why so many of our friends and neighbors don’t understand why it is that we keep coming down to Williamsburg time and again. People tend to star at us in unbelief when we tell them that we’ve never been to Busch Gardens and then ask, “What do you do…
