Adventure Travel Photography Blog
The dogs and I returned to the Blue Ridge Parkway near the border of Virginia and North Carolina. We made two stops on the Parkway, Smart View and Mabry Mill, before jumping off to visit Eastern Tennessee. Reader’s Digest explains the names of each stop fit the description mountain folk applied ages ago.
ON THE ROAD AGAIN!
Today the dogs and I started down the Blue Ridge Parkway which connects to the south end of Skyline Drive which I completed last week. The drives, similar in scenery, were quite different in other ways. Skyline Drive passes through a National Park where a toll booth marks a limited amount of entry and exit points. I believe there were three in total. As such, the Skyline Drive area is more pristine.
ON THE ROAD AGAIN!I woke up to what I’d call Texas snow. Oh, there’s a snowflake…5 seconds later, oh, there’s another one! Lucky for me, it was light and nothing stuck. I would have liked to take a few pictures of snow dusted mountains later in the day, but at the same time I wanted to depart when planned. The ranger at Shenandoah National Park told me, depending on how much it snows, they have all campers wait until the roads are plowed and then the campers are directed to the safest exit which might not be in the chosen direction.
ON THE ROAD AGAIN!
I woke up to rain, and as I’m writing this at 9:40 this evening it has yet to stop. Per my waitress Laura’s recommendation, I stopped by Bodo’s for a bagel and coffee, the locals’ favorite. What made Bodo’s even better is it was located directly across from the UVA campus which is splendid. With a full belly, I headed north to Shenandoah National Park.
ON THE ROAD AGAIN!
Scout, Petey and I had a busy day today. We left the Walmart parking lot and arrived in Colonial Williamsburg only a short time later around 10 o’clock. I got so lucky! I followed the brown signs to the historic district, passed a few parking lots and ended up parking right next to the visitor’s center next to Williamsburg’s historic center.
ON THE ROAD AGAIN!