A First Look At A Real River

Yes, it was like 'wow!' when I saw the James River. It was vast, and had some rapids along the way. Wild ducks were flying here and there. Thought we could spear one and have it for dinner...

We went to the James River on the second day after our arrival. We had to take a bus down to the central of the city of Richmond in order to get to the James River. One thing about the bus system here is that no one knows anything about it. We had such a hard time trying to figure out which direction to go and what time the bus will come and have we already missed the bus. Really makes me appreciate the transportation infrastructure in Singapore. But the weather here is DAMN GOOD! I love it absolutely! I don't break a sweat even on hot days (ok, it's not the hot season yet but there were some warm days). When we asked for directions some of the people were really friendly, but some of them are just damn anal about talking to us.

So after seeing the James River, we crossed it to go over to Belle Isle. It used to be this area where the military would store their ammo and things there. Apprently many died there too due to dysentry and some other diseases. It was a depressing place but we did have fun taking pictures along the way, but it is strictly for the history and nature lovers. All others would find it far from civilisation and boring.

Walking around sure works up and appetite. We then went around looking for food, and came to this outlet called Quiznos Sub or something like that. There was an African-American guy and a white lady smoking at the outside. Apperently they work there as they were wearing the uniform. The guy saw us and wanted to get us to eat at their outlet, and came out with menus (those give away kind) and said, "Come eat, come eat". Hmmm...I'm thinking he doesn't know that we speak English. But after we asked them a few questions and after seeing that we can speak English, he spoke normally again.

The food portions here are really big as I soon come to realise and believe. The burgers are about 1.5 times bigger than their Singapore counter parts. Even the pizza slices are huge. They certainly astound me.

After "lunch" (we had lunch at about 3.00pm that day), we went around Downtown Richmond. We were just walking around aimlessly. There wasn't much to see there as it was mostly restaurants and residentials and abandoned buildings. Took a few pictures but it was just normal stuff, nothing too exciting.