A vacation to remember.

 Last week, Anne and I travelled to Williamsburg, Virginia, for our summer vacation. We took two days to get there, travelling through the Appalachians. The beautiful, rolling hills of Pennsylvania are a part of that journey we enjoy.

 In Williamsburg we visited many historical sites. In Jamestown, the recreated Powhatan village from the early 1600s was a highlight of these visits.

 Another highlight was sailing on the schooner, Alliance, at Yorktown for a two hour sunset cruise, It was idyllic, not like Gilligan's two hour cruise.

 The sunset was serene.

 Less serene was the attack by this turkey!

 On our way home, we stopped off to visit Anne's nephew, Gary, at Arnold, near Annapolis Royal in Maryland, just east of Washington.

A highlight of this visit was having a feast of snow crab legs at a crab shack. Shown here are , from left to right, Gary, Anne, Melany. Bella, Lloyd and me.The Cooper hospitality was supreme.

Split Rock Golf: Unforgiving!

We have returned from our week's vacation with Adrian at the Split Rock Resort and Golf Club at Lake Harmony, Pennsylvania. The resort is named for the geological feature of the Split Rock shown here.





When we asked Adrian to name the favourite part of his holiday, he said, "Golfing!." On Monday and Friday he accompanied me as I played 18 holes of golf on a very unforgiving course. He really enjoys riding a cart with me. The course at Split Rock is very well maintained as far as to the edges of the fairway. Then its so unforgiving. I am used to being able to find my golf ball 50% of the time when I hit it into the bush. Not so at Split Rock. The undergrowth was so dense and so thick with brambles, ferns and low-lying shrubs that you could not spot the ball nor dare advance into the bush to retrieve it. By Adrian's count, I lost 10 (ten ) balls in the first round. But the views and the GPS system on the carts were sufficient to bring us back a second time. And I lost fewer balls on the Friday!

Anne, Adrian and I pose before a trolley on another outing we made during our stay in the Appalachians. We enjoyed our week's stay just a one day's drive from Ottawa (600 km or around 375 miles) and would like to return to the area again with Adrian next year.