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| 2005-10-11 | Retire, Relocate, or Purchase a Second Home in Smithfiled, Virginia: Home of History Ham and Peanuts |
Retire, Relocate, or Purchase a Second Home in Smithfiled, Virginia: Home of History Ham and Peanuts
by: Elaine VonCannon
Walking down Main Street in Smithfield, Virginia, any visitor will have the sense that they are returning to Americas past. The downtown district is small and filled with history, info">and townspeople are congenial. You will feel like you may see Aunt Bea, Opie, Barny Fife or Sherrif Andy of Mayberry as you stroll the Streets of Smithfield, Virginia
Folks greet each other by first names. A casual trip to the deli and bakery is an opportunity to greet neighbors. Contrary to many metropolitan areas on the East Coast, Smithfield is not fast paced or stressful.
A visit to Smithfield is a journey into Americas beginnings. Smithfield, Virginia and Isle of Wight County were settled in the 17th Century, and their rich history dates to Colonial times, when this part of the world was still under the governance of England.
- Celebrate Smithfields past during the Smithfield Olden Days Celebration (www.hamptonroads.com)
- Downtown boasts of an antique shop, a Mom & Pop grocery store, a marina, a bakery, a post office, several banks, a library, offices of doctors and lawyers, a florist, restaurants, a bed and breakfast, a Police Station, a Fire Department, a YMCA Exercise Center, a newspaper office, art galleries, a drug store, a hardware store, an auto parts store, a laundry mat, a veterinarian, an ice cream parlor, antique stores, a jewelry store, and a five and dime.
- A sense of pride is pervasive in the whole community. The town is a neat as a pin.
- Houses are in pristine condition in the historic district and pride of ownership is reflected everywhere even on the outskirts of town.
- Take a time out to visit Smithfield, Virginias museum.
- Just outside of town there are a choice of major grocery stores and banks.
- Smithfield is very close to metropolitan areas of Virginia such as Newport News and Hampton which are easily accessible via the James River Bridge.
- Smithfield is also within a half hour from Norfolk, Chesapeake, Portsmouth and Virginia Beach. These areas are accessed via Interstate 264, a newly built highway.
- Smithfield, Virginia and Isle of Wight county are areas experiencing an economic boom, since Interstate 264 allows such easy access to these rural areas.
- Williamsburg is 40 minutes away by a pleasant, free, ferry ride from Surry to Jamestown. To the west of Smithfield is Richmond and Petersburg, a mere 45 minutes away.
- Smithfield Hams are salt country hams that are an internationally known brand of a gourmet Southern treat originating in this region.
- Once an area that was covered with tobacco plantations, Smithfield, Virginia and Isle of Wight County are now known for peanuts, a crop that still grows plentifully in the soil depleted by tobacco crops.
- Visit nearby Chippokes Plantation, preserved and overseen by Virginia State Parks. Each summer, Chippokes Planation hosts the Peanuts, Pork, and Pine Festival with shad planking and pig picking. The festival is a celebration of Southern food, culture, and music.
- For those who want to live and play in their own backyard, Smithfield is home to Eagle Harbor, a gated golf community with an exclusive club. A public golf course, Sleepy Hollow, is also located in Smithfield.
- In addition to Eagle Harbor, there are several other upscale communities in and around Smithfield Virginia and some newly constructed homes.
- For the boating enthusiast, Smithfield offers a choice of marinas, and a yacht club. Marinas offer access to the James River, which meets the harbor in Norfolk and Hampton at its mouth, and leads to the Chesapeake Bay.
For the retiree who wants a taste of small town American life, or the professional who is tired of the fast pace of urban areas, Smithfield is a perfect place to retire, relocate or purchase a second home. I can offer a wide variety of choices for real estate in this area, and would be happy to show any interested homebuyers around this lovely southern version of Mayberry.
Source: http://www.articlecity.com/
| 2005-10-11 | Best Buys in Your Yearly Worldwide Travel Coverage |
Best Buys in Your Yearly Worldwide Travel Coverage
by: Steve Cogger
For best buys in annual travel insurance worldwide you need first only travel as far as your Internet connection. Annual travel insurance for worldwide travel is the best buy, as compared with single trip coverage, if you're going to be making more than one trip in a calendar year, or if you're stay is going to be lengthy.
Let's look at some insurers and plans that qualify as best buy annual travel insurance worldwide.
One UK travel insurance carrier that dubs itself the cheapest worldwide travel insurance offers not only annual coverage but plans specific to a single trip, a business trip, backpacking adventures, and plans designed with folks over 65 in mind.
You can purchase the best buys in worldwide travel insurance for a year's worth of worldwide coverage that includes the U.S. and Canada as well as Europe, or you can choose to exclude the United States and Canada. This coverage, while noted as worldwide travel insurance does exclude from coverage several high-risk areas - the countries of Israel, Lebanon, Libya and Algeria. In fact, you would be hard pressed to find annual or single trip travel insurance coverage for these countries anywhere. Were you to do so you can count on them not being among your best buy.
Let's look at an example quote and see if it is indeed one of the best buys in annual travel insurance worldwide. These quotes are for UK residents. Assuming two adults, the oldest 64, traveling in Europe, the range of cost is indeed quite low - from a per person low of $46.43 U.S. dollars to a high of $78.18. These just might be some of the best buys in annual travel insurance worldwide. Coverage includes trip delay or cancellation protection, medical care, the cost of repatriation back to your home, hospital care, lost or delayed luggage, missed flight connection or departure, hijacking, accident, personal liability, care of injured pet, and even vacation abandonment (which means were your flight or cruise to be delayed 12 hours or more you could choose to cancel your plans and be reimbursed for doing so.) These best buys in annual worldwide travel insurance also offer additional coverage add-ons (for an additional price, of course.)
You can choose to pay an extra fee for additional travel insurance coverage for loss or theft of money you carry with you, for loss or damage to business equipment such as your laptop, blackberry or cell phone, and for injury during participation in golf or winter sports.
Best buys in travel insurance worldwide are also found on the Internet, with many sites offering an easy comparison.
Source: http://www.articlecity.com/
| 2005-10-11 | Backpackers and Billionaires |
Backpackers and Billionaires
by: David Stanley
It used to be that backpacking trips to Fiji involved a bus ride from Nadi to Suva, then a ferry to somewhere like Ovalau, Savusavu, Taveuni or Kadavu. No more. These days young budget travelers are lining up to go to the Yasawa Islands, a chain of 16 large volcanic islands and dozens of smaller ones roughly 35 km off the west coast of Viti Levu.
The dazzling white beaches, clear warm waters, colorful coral reefs, and sunny dry climate make the Yasawa Group an ideal tourist destination, but until recently a visit involved a rough sea voyage from Lautoka in an unsafe village boat—or an expensive seaplane flight from Nadi. Blue Lagoon Cruises has been plying the Yasawas since the 1950s, but passengers aboard those upscale vessels sleep in staterooms and local residents receive few benefits from their presence.
Until the 1987 Rabuka coups in Suva, it was the policy of the Fiji government that the Yasawas were closed to land-based tourism. The long years of military-backed government brought few changes to the Yasawas, although Australian investors were allowed to construct the deluxe Yasawa Island Resort (www.yasawa.com) in 1991 and a couple of village-operated backpacker camps sprang up on Wayasewa and Waya. Since the early 1980s, local families have operated three small low-budget resorts on Tavewa Island, thanks largely to Tavewa’s status as a freehold island beyond the authority of the Fijian chiefs. For decades local church leaders have portrayed tourism as a corrupting outside influence to be kept at arms length from village life.
It would be hard to imagine anything more removed from real Fijian life than Turtle Island Resort on Nanuya Levu Island, Fiji’s ultimate hideaway for the US$1,500-a-night crowd. Nanuya Levu has been freehold land since 1868, and in 1972 Richard Evanson used US$300,000 he earned in the Southern California cable television business to buy the island.
Evanson’s Turtle Island Resort (www.turtlefiji.com) became the prototype of Fiji’s current crop of boutique island resorts, hosting notables like Hollywood stars and millionaires. Brooke Shields stayed here during the 1980 filming of the escapist classic The Blue Lagoon.
A self-styled environmentalist, Evanson has planted thousands of trees on his island, and has converted the mangrove forests into tourist attractions by cleverly creating boardwalks. The resort’s food is grown in organic gardens and power is generated using solar and wind energy. Each year a group of volunteer California eye specialists visits Turtle Island Resort to perform eye surgery on needy villagers or to equip them with donated prescription glasses.
Yet for most Yasawans, life has changed little since 1789 when Captain William Bligh and loyal members of his crew paddled past the group in an open boat shortly after the famous mutiny on the Bounty. Even today, most villages are without electricity or running water, and opportunities for economic development are very limited. The Yasawans have felt neglected by politicians in the distant capital, envious onlookers as mini-cruise ships and yachts carried wealthy foreigners along their shores.
In May 2000, rabble-rouser George Speight and assorted thugs seized the Parliament building in Suva, turning Fiji on its head. Speight’s pro-indigenous rhetoric struck a chord in the Yasawas. Villagers from Nacula Island staged a mini-coup on Turtle Island, locking Evanson in one of his 14 luxurious bungalows as village youths rode wildly around Nanuya Levu on Evanson’s golf carts.
When the excitement died down, plaited mats were spread and kava roots were pounded, and over many bowls of grog, Evanson and the villagers came to an understanding.
Rather than killing the golden goose, Evanson convinced the Nacula people that they’d be better off opening resorts of their own and allowing him to continue running his business in peace.
Evanson offered interest-free construction loans and promotional support, and the Nacula Tikina Tourism Association was born. The association’s Web site (www.fijibudget.com) currently describes a dozen locally-operated resorts around the Blue Lagoon in the central Yasawas, including the three existing properties on Tavewa. All resort operators must conform to a strict code of conduct intended to preserve the environment and guarantee acceptable levels of service. Though primitive compared to the luxurious Mamanuca resorts off Nadi, the Yasawa backpacker camps provide basic food and accommodations at a relatively low price.
The mass influx of backpackers only began in 2002 when Awesome Adventures (www.awesomefiji.com), a subsidiary of New Zealand-owned South Sea Cruises, launched a fast catamaran service up and down the chain. You can now depart Nadi’s Denarau Marina on the Yasawa Flyer any morning at 9:15 a.m. and be at the resort of your choice in time for lunch. As many as 150 backpackers do this every day and the village-operated resorts on Kuata, Wayasewa, Waya, Naviti, Tavewa, Nacula, Nanuya Lailai, and Matacawa Levu are booming.
Reservations can be made upon arrival at Nadi Airport through any one of a dozen 24-hour travel agencies right in the airport terminal itself. All of these offices sell catamaran tickets with a bus transfer to the harbor included. Deluxe lodgings and gourmet food should not be expected at any of the Yasawa resorts—yet the friendly people, spectacular natural beauty, and low prices make most travelers overlook these inconveniences.
Source: http://www.articlecity.com/
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