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Virginia Beach
- Thread starter skybert
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PVG is a pretty good combination of cost for flying into and ground transportation (I'm guessing you'll probably get a rental car through the FBO), but it's a longish drive through the tunnel to get to Norfolk-Virginia Beach.
ORF is in the middle of a lot of things while being close to almost nothing. It's probably worth comparing airplane tie down and rental car costs between that and Exec, just taxi/Ubering around from the FBO to wherever you're going, or seeing if your hotel won't just send their shuttle to the FBO and pick you up there (and cabbing it everywhere from the hotel).
In addition to the battleship and any bases you might be trying to visit for old time's sake, the Military Aviation Museum in southern Virginia Beach is a real treasure. There's all the normal big city touristy stuff too like a zoo and various museums, if any of those kinds of attractions are your thing.
ORF is in the middle of a lot of things while being close to almost nothing. It's probably worth comparing airplane tie down and rental car costs between that and Exec, just taxi/Ubering around from the FBO to wherever you're going, or seeing if your hotel won't just send their shuttle to the FBO and pick you up there (and cabbing it everywhere from the hotel).
In addition to the battleship and any bases you might be trying to visit for old time's sake, the Military Aviation Museum in southern Virginia Beach is a real treasure. There's all the normal big city touristy stuff too like a zoo and various museums, if any of those kinds of attractions are your thing.
Which is obviously close to Williamsburg and Jamestown but also the Yorktown battlefield.
RoarkJr.
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Busch Gardens is a pretty good theme park in Williamsburg. I recommend the oceanfront to see the memorials/beach, there’s also the Edgar Cayce center of you’re into that. Mount Trashmore is in VB as well, pretty neat to see and it’s close to the VB town center which has a new indoor entertainment plex. Also good food.
Battleship USS Wisconsin at Nauticus.
You guys are talking about rental cars like they are as common as face masks at a Young Democrats meeting. Have you tried to get one recently? And if you can, the price? I just drove 800 miles rather than non rev and deal with a rental car at destination. Well, there was also wearing a mask at the airport and enroute vs maskless rocking to my own window pulsating tunes, snacking on junk food and stopping whenever I wanted to explore.
I grew up in VA Beach and lived near Mt Trashmore back when it was still a dump. When they covered it with dirt they had the soapbox derby track up there, and we used to take our skateboards and bomb it top to bottom. Hello speed wobbles. We’d camp out at a friends house and then go prowling around there at night. Right near it was a drive-in theatre that showed skin flicks, so we’d sneak in there too.
Playing in a little league game nearby, we all looked up and there were two chutes coming down just near our ball field. Two guys had jumped out of A6 somewhere. Ops normal living near an airbase.
RoarkJr.
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I grew up in Newport News, skated all over the Hampton Roads area as a young hellion. Pretty cool to have a mix of different cultures around. That’s why I like VB and PCola.
Pretty sure the City of Virginia Beach banned tobogganing there several years ago. Too dangerous and because... the Karens took over Va Beach before the term "Karen" was a thing in pop culture
(Same city that uses crossing guards to hold up traffic so the school buses can leave the school parking lot without having to wait for a green light.)
In the early days Mt Trashmore had this terrain park on the smaller hill that was made out of asphalt and got warped in the hot sun of the summer while disintegrating into gravel at the bottom of the pipe. We rode that thing hard.
Or go land at first flight for some serious aviation history. They didn't let you land H-60s there but you could do a low approach and then circle the monument.