My wanderings, in and around Virginia Beach, VA
It was a gorgeous day in Virginia Beach today, and since it was I decided a nice hike in FIrst Landing State Park was in order, and apparently a lot of other people did too.
If I had to guess (which I am) I would say there are over 15 miles of hiking trails in the park, none of which are real rough for almost anyone. Decided on the Osmanthus Trail, which is about 3 miles long, and mostly flat, with a few boardwalks through the really wet parts.
Over the weekend, Saturday, I got around and took care of some things, and I noticed as I passed the 4th or 5th school I passed, that despite being closed for the christmas break (well mostly closed, a couple admin people working) was that the parking lots were plowed. Is there any reason that the school parking lots needed to be plowed when the schools were closed, and the icy roads leading to and from the schools weren’t, sounds real counter productive to me. School budgets are shrinking, yet they have the money to plow parking lots…
Later that evening, while riding bikes to the local bar, we took the usual short cut through the local rec center parking lot, and what did I see while going through the parking lot… Yep you guessed it, the parking lot at the rec center was also plowed, meanwhile earlier in the day I was drivingndown fully covered in snow streets, a week after the snow fell…
Everyday I wonder more and more where this towns priorities are, it doesn’t appear to me that the tax g citizens are very high on that prior it list..