Colonial Beach, VA

Location: Colonial Beach, Virginia, USA
Date visited: November 2014

I spent Veterans Day exploring the Northern Neck of Virginia. My first real tourism stop of the day was the George Washington Birthplace National Monument. The houses were closed due to some kind of mechanical failure, rendering them unsafe, but I learned a lot at the visitor center and got to see the graves and the obelisk. I also stopped by the beach, where I picked up an oyster shell, one of the eleventy billion collected in the sand. Where I grew up, rivers don't have sandy beaches, so it's still novel. (Okay, where I grew up we didn't have any river, but I certainly spent more time by them than the ocean.)