Then on to Norfolk, VA. Here we spent a few days and visited the Norfolk Botanical Garden.
This 155-acre garden includes one of the largest collections of azaleas, camellias, rhododendrons and roses on the East Coast. These gorgeous 'shrubs' are Crepe Myrtle. I've never seen them before, but just love them!!
Crepe Myrtle has the most interesting bark! Smooth gray or light brown bark peels off to reveal smooth, pinkish inner bark.
There are more then 40 themed gardens and visitors can tour the gardens by foot on more than 12 miles of pathways.
I'm pretty sure we saw the majority of the park. It was wonderfully relaxing day - I do miss my garden!!
For the next two days we drove into Virginia Beach.
Virginia Beach is a resort city with miles of beaches and hundreds of hotels, motels, and restaurants along its oceanfront. The population is about 450,000, much larger than we had expected. The Boardwalk is 28 feet wide and stretches for three miles.
The beach was beautiful and went on forever. We had lunch and a beer at one of the restaurants the first day, but opted to bring our own lunch for day 2. We relaxed on the sandy beach and swam in the water. It was great!
As we were leaving the beach on day 2 the black clouds were rolling in. In fact it was beginning to rain as we neared our car. It was about 2 when we got back to the motorhome and we decided to move along. We only travelled about an hour when we pulled into a rest area - the first one in North Carolina. Tropical Storm Hermine set in pretty good. The rain pelted down and the wind blew. We hunkered down and stayed for two nights.
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