After Gettysburg, we headed down to another "burg", Fredericksburg, VA, where we were hosted by an old friend from our Montgomery, Alabama and Civil Air Patrol days in 1992 or 1993, Sandy Rose.

Sandy is an anti-terroism expert who has worked overseas for the State department in developing programs for state leaders to combat terrorism. Because of her language skills she also conducts English writing seminars on her own and is starting a company to do more of that type of training. Here's Sandy and Jo-Anne in Sandy's place in downtown Fredericksburg.

She has a really sharp new condo right in the downtown of Fredericksburg from where we walked to a wonderful restaurant on the riverfront the first night there. The weather and view from the balcony of the restaurant couldn't have been better. Either the kayak person was really fast or the photographer was a bit slow ... don't know .... but this was the view from our table ... awesome!

The next night we drove a short bit to another fine place for the obligatory wine toast.

Sandy is a good friend who is doing super work for us all and we are already ready to come back here!