Last summer we went on a family trip to the East Coast to visit Williamsburg Virginia. We were able to stay at a Williamsburg Plantation timeshare and the accommodations were quite good. I don’t have any real interest in owning a timeshare unit but we were actually able to rent a unit from somebody who was not able to make use of their block of time and by renting their unit from them we were able to save a great deal of money over the cost of just booking a hotel room for the week.

Colonial Williamsburg is an excellent spot to visit, there’s something there that everyone will find interesting. You can master a lot about the way life was back in the late 1700s and early 1800s. How people lived, different trades they practiced, the attire they dressed in and even how they spoke. There are actors that walk around the town in period clothing, telling stories about how things were in those days. There is a great deal of historical architecture and a history buff could spend a great deal of time in this location.

Along with all of the traditional points of interest there are a number of other things you can do as well. There is certainly Busch Gardens which has more than 50 rides and other attractions and the home of the Griffin which happens to be the world’s tallest floorless dive roller coaster. There’s also a significant kids area called Sesame Street Forest that has rides for the children as well as a large water area for the children to play in. If you like the water Williamsburg is also home to Water Country USA that has water slides, shopping and places to eat. It is a very cool location with a 1950s and 60s surf theme.

After spending a few days in the immediate area of Williamsburg we thought it would be fun to go out to the coast and spend some time at the beach. Sad to say our peaceful trip to the beach was anything but tranquil. There were also a little bit of environmental groups staging some sort of protest, I think it was about dumping untreated water directly into the ocean. I don’t mind people protesting and I can even get behind their particular cause but in addition to being quite noisy they also would not let us be. I had five different people make an effort to get me to sign the exact same petition to get the government to make changes to avoid further pollution of the ocean. I’m not really sure they were protesting in opposition to a particular one to go with or the government or precisely what but whoever they were demonstrating against is going to need to employ a team of PR firms to help repair their reputation.