34. Take Me to Old Virginny
The Pilgrims famously crossed the Atlantic Ocean in the Mayflower, and ended up landing and settling in Plymouth, about forty miles south of modern Boston, at roughly 42° latitude N. However, their intended destination when they left England was hundreds of miles from Plymouth down the eastern seaboard in the Virginia Colony, roughly 40° latitude N.
The Pilgrims’ journey was beset by many delays. They had planned to sail from England in July of 1620. However, most of the people making the voyage where then living in Leiden, in the Netherlands. So the plan was for a sister ship, the Speedwell, to sail from England to the Netherlands, pick up the passengers, return to Southampton, join the Mayflower, and then the two ships would sail together in convoy to Virginia.