After the awards brunch at the Borodino Conference on Sunday, we packed up the MagWeb.com booth and hauled the boxes to the room. We poked around for another hour or two in the main ballroom, saying goodbyes and such. Frankly, I was pretty much exhausted by that point. Preparing for the conference, lining up speakers, getting MagWeb.com shipshape before I left, and then running the speakers portion of the conference takes an extraordinary effort compared to my usual dealer/vendor routine of getting to a booth. Fortunately, Susan pretty much ran the booth for all four days.

To take a break, we headed off to Yorktown around mid-afternoon on Sunday. It's about 20 miles from Fort Monroe. We headed directly towards I-64. Mistake. This same weekend was Hampton's Bay Days Festival, and a glorious Sunday afternoon meant a ton of cars coming from Norfolk area. When all of them hit the construction...instant traffic jam.

But let us not complain too loudly. For once, we got backed up at the end of the line right at an exit ramp, so we peeled off I-64 onto Rte 134, and threaded our way to good ol' 258, and then back to I-64. That brought us around the construction constriction, and we were soon hightailing it up I-64 and then Rte 17 towards the famous battlefield.

Will the Real Yorktown Please Stand Up

One thing we learned was that there are three Yorktowns, not one. There's the Yorktown Battlefield, run by the National Park Service. There's Yorktown the town. And there's Yorktown Victory Center, which from descriptions seems the Williamsburg-ified version of Yorktown, the location.

We concentrated on the first two and did not have time to see the third.

More Yorktown Battlefield

Introduction
Historical Preliminaries
Visitor's Center
The Quick Tour
Forward March...Ouch! Ouch!
Redoubts 9 and 10
Grand French Battery
Augustine Moore House
Surrender Field
Yorktown Victory Monument

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