Somerville, VA 22739

Last Sat­ur­day we took a lit­tle drive to visit Donna’s Cousin Susie for break­fast. We were in DC and Susie lives in Rich­mond, VA a cou­ple hun­dred miles away, so we picked a town about halfway between and Fredricks­burg was the win­ner. The is a local chain called Aunt Sarah’s that had a restau­rant just off I-95 in Fredricks­burg. We agreed to meet there around 8:30.

Donna and I took the “back road” down, US301, and even had time to pick up a cou­ple of caches on the way. When we got to Aunt Sarah’s the park­ing lot was deserted. Look­ing inside the win­dow ver­i­fied that it was no longer in busi­ness. After sev­eral passes from “wrong Way Susie” we ended up eat­ing at a Bob Evan’s on the other side of the Inter­state. The actu­all restau­rant was irrel­e­vant it was just a place to meet and have the cousins catch up.

After we went our sep­a­rate ways Donna and I decided to break out the Vir­ginia map and find a back way north instead of join­ing the lem­mings on I-95. By five miles out of Fredricks­burg we were on rural two-lane black­top with lit­tle to zero traf­fic. This was the only time on the trip that we missed hav­ing the Miata.

About halfway back to the Air­port Mar­riott where we were spend­ing the night, we made a quick stop at a small gen­eral store for some ice cream. What do you know, it is also a post office, old habits die hard so I broke out the digi­cam and snapped a sot of our Hyundai Elanta rental car in front of the Somerville, VA Post Office.