[Rhodes22-list] Chesapeake Sailing

[L. Sailor]

Dave,

Did you check out White Stone??? Mega-buck city...

Actually, there's quite a bit to do in the lower No.
Neck of VA...lots of professional retirees with as
much $$ as time.....the demographics read quite
differently from what causual observation would
reveal..

BTW..Friends who have retired to  New Bern just love
it there....

Elle

--- DCLewis1 at aol.com wrote:

> 
> Well, the list is kind of quiet, so I thought I’d
> offer a small  tidbit.  My 
> wife and I were off looking for retirement locales -
>  again.  This time we 
> looped over to Kilmarnock and Urbanna Va before 
> heading to Edenton, Washington 
> NC and New Bern.  A friend had told us about 
> Kilmarnock.  Kilmarnock and 
> Urbanna are down near Norfolk, about 1/2 hour  to 45
> min driving time north of 
> Williamsburg Va.
>  
> We didn’t think there was much to Kilmarnock. 
> Maybe we missed the  good 
> parts, but my sense is was that entire part of
> Virginia is very rural, and  
> Kilmarnock is the “large town� that supports
> that part of the world.   Dealerships 
> selling farm machinery, that sort of thing.  There
> were a few  housing 
> developments, but no substantial infrastructure, and
> we didn’t see a  marina although 
> many people had boats parked in their front yards.
>  
> Urbanna was different.  It appears to be a much
> smaller town but it’s  right 
> on the water near the mouth of the Rappahannock
> river.  There were at  least 2 
> substantial dock areas and a boat yard.  Lots of
> sailboats.   It impressed us 
> as a quaint little town - not in the sense of New
> Bern which is  much larger 
> and “colonial�, but more like something from the
> 1950s.  I  doubt that there 
> is anything to do at night in Urbanna, other than
> count the  stars, but it's a 
> quaint little town and there may be as many boats in
> it's  marinas as there 
> are homes in the town.
>  
> If you’re cruising the southern part of the
> Chesapeake, this might be  of 
> interest.  
>  
> Dave
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