Four Days in Colonial Williamsburg — Where History Comes to Life

After five weeks road tripping around America, I wanted to cap off the fabulous adventure with a return to our Revolutionary roots.

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So I spent my final four days before heading home in Virginia‘s Colonial Williamsburg. Few places enable travellers to step back in time quite like Colonial Williamsburg.

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Whenever I stroll its cobblestone streets, surrounded by colonial buildings and interpreters in period dress, it feels as if modernity has slipped away for a few brief restorative moments.

Williamsburg: The Story of a Patriot stars Jack Lord as John Fry, a fictitious Virginia planter elected to the House of Burgesses in the pre-dawn of the American Revolution.

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I had the opportunity to participate in an even more improbable re-enactment of the Fifth Virginia Convention at “Resolved, An American Experiment”.

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I did enjoy the pleasant walk from the Williamsburg Lodge to the Capitol and even spotted Gen. and Mrs. George Washington out for a ride.

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Perhaps one of the silver linings to the loss of Revolutionary City is that Williamsburg is nowhere near as crowded as it used to be.

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