> The next day we biked, um, I think it was 3 miles, to a ferry which took us across, oh jeez, whatever body of water Jamestown and Williamsburg are on.

You must have gone straight down Jamestown Road, which is right by where I live, and taken the ferry over the James River (which is four or five miles across at this point, as it flows into the Chesapeake Bay) to Suffolk and Surry County.

>After a few Titanic jokes and many pictures, we realized that it was beautiful - moving across an open stretch of water as the sun rose, watching the clouds change colors.... wow. The other people on the ferry with us were all sitting in their cars reading their newspapers. we thought they were silly, ignoring such beauty.

Yeah, it's a nice ride across the river...but you have to realize most of those people commute by ferry and have taken it a million times. It's funny how amazing natural beauty can seem so commonplace if you see it enough times. I always wonder if that happens to people who work in the really impressive national parks over the summer.

Tom Schmidt