Woke up this morning in a Virginia field under Virginia skies....unfortunatly they are full of rain. It is so humid here everything I have is damp anyway so a shower or two won't hurt. I've ridden a spectacular 20 or so miles to the city of Charlottesville. Here I have booked into a hostel for two nights to rest and make plans for the final approach into yorktown....which only two days ride for me but I want it to tAke two weeks!

On the way into town I saw something interesting. The first Obama sign in a front garden. I've ridden 4000 miles across 10 states and so far the front gardens of America are all mitt Romney...it probably means nothing but if it does the Obama needs to get a better gardening advisor.

I've been in Charlottesville a few hours and have met a guy in a car who offered to let me stay at his place...cool...he road same route last year I think. Then I've met lots of Mexicans....of course....they.are nice peeps and run the corner store where loitering is forbidden under Mexican law.

Here I have a dry room out of the storm...air con WiFi and three bananas...oh and green tea!

Today I rest. Tomorrow I will get deliberatly lost in Charlottesville and explore the town.

I've decided to stay on route and not go.up to the battlefields around fredricksburg. It's raining and humid and I just want to get to the coast now.

So....I think I'm going to tAke time out around the Richmond battlefields instead and be content with that.