Evening Trip

Nothing much going on here. This past Thursday I was on the 'net and I happened across an advert for a "pumpkin fair" in the nearby city of Hopewell. Little did I know that Thursday, October 26, was National Pumpkin Day. I didn't know there was even such a thing as a National Pumpkin Day. So I called to Nuria and told her we were driving to Hopewell to attend a street fair. She was, of course, up for it. She's up for anything that gets her out of the house for a while.

I used Waze to get us there, which I think took a route that was not the shortest but had the least traffic. So maybe the route we took was the shortest in time if not in miles. I parked and we walked around the streets looking at the vendors and their wares. There were the obligatory pumpkins, of course. There was a man singing and strumming a guitar. There were all the kinds of odds and ends that you would expect at a food fair.

We wandered to the end of Library Street. (It's named Library Street because along one side of the street, the entire block is taken up by the Appomattox Regional Library.) This was our view:

This is the intersection of Library Street with Appomattox Street. >>
This is a historical part of Virginia. Some parts were settled in the early 1600s. We were not far from City Point, which played a significant role during the Civil War. City Point was the Union advance supply depot, situated deep in the heart of the Confederacy, only 20 miles from the Southern capital of Richmond. From the end of June 1864 to May 1865, City Point provided all supplies necessary to support the 125,000 men and 65,000 animals of General Ulysses S. Grant's Army.

We walked across Appomattox Street and found ourselves looking at a gently sloping hillside that ended in a large, level park, and then the slope resumed down to the Appomattox River. Or maybe the James River. The river we could see was actually where the Appomattox flows into the James, so which river we were looking at was not exactly clear. It was really a confluence of the two rivers.

A road looped around to a parking area near a young children's playground. Beyong the trees, we could see water. So we continued forward.

Nuria on the path ahead of me. >>

The river is easy to see, although in the photo it blends with the sky so you can't tell exactly where the far shore is located. There are some amenities, like places to sit and have shelter from sun or rain, or just rest your legs.

Waterfowl in the river. >>

This is a nice place to sit and think of nothing important.

As evening approached, we walked back to Library Street and around the corner to my old but faithful Jeep and fired it up. We stopped halfway home to buy a couple of What-a-Burgers and fries, and we continued home to consume them. The evening trip was pleasant.