Left fairly early this morning and had a really beautiful drive down through Virginia; this really is a gorgeous state, especially at this time of the year. I think the colours of the trees here are more amazing than in New England, the colours are just so much more deep and vibrant.
The drive down here wasn’t too bad, and not too long and we got to the park around mid afternoon; it seemed to take a lot out of Tal-y however as she needed a long nap after we arrived. It’s a nice place, quite big with maybe 150 sites, but they are quite spread out and there are not too many people here this time of the year. The park is right alongside the Plankatank River, which looks more like a lake than a river. We looked for a space along the river but most were taken, and apparently we don’t get internet along the river bank. We ended up parking smack dab in the middle of the park, on a row where we are the only trailer so we can make all the noise we want.
This afternoon we took a quick trip into Gloucester, which is not actually that quick as it’s about half an hour to the town. We went to get our mail at the Post Office, and this was the first time Jazmin had mailed it so we weren’t sure if it would actually be there, but hooray it was. Seriously, thanks Jazmin you really are awesome, and if you weren’t so old we’d adopt you as our own!
Mike’s a little gutted at the moment as he’s trying to tune in the TV, and no matter how he turns the antenna we still get a funky picture that comes and goes. And, on top of that we have absolutely no cell phone service in this place, none. The map of the park has a ‘cell stump' on it that we went in search off this evening; I’m not sure whether we found it or not but we didn’t find any cell service. I thought AT&T covered 99% of the country - it could be a long few days, although Tal-y is happy as there’s a bark park here.

Mike: No TV, no cell service, wow, I'll be surfing the web and making a lot of noise!