We woke up early today after a patchy night's sleep thanks to a combination of the heat, noisy insects, freight trains blowing their horns every hour or so (apparently right next to the campsite) and a lack of camping mats (first thing on the shopping list today). Fortunately, we had a cooked breakfast to wake us up; our temporary camping kit proving its worth. Since we have to either bin any camping kit in 10 days time or carry it around without a car until we get to California, we have only bought budget essentials. We cooked breakfast (stored in a polystyrene cool box) on a tin of smokeless gel fuel, which seemed a great idea until we realised that we had no stand to place the saucepan on, and placing it directly on the tin extinguished the flame. A penknife and 2 drink cans later and we were back in business, and had a very welcome breakfast of bacon and egg rolls.
We drove into Colonial Williamsburg, which seems a bit like an American Stow on the Wold; there's not much to do for free other than walk around, but it's so hot today that we were happy to just do that for an hour and then head back to our shady campsite and swimming pool.
After a swim and a go on the giant inflatable slide they have, we went for a walk in the woods by the campsite, where we saw a 5ft black snake speeding through the undergrowth; we think it was maybe a black rat snake as they're common around here.
Tomorrow we're on the road again, driving out towards Roanoke to join the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Bitey bitey count : L : just one new, W : no new
Good work, Bear Grylls would be proud. Next step: Drink own piss.
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