Catch up for days 5 - 7 the Next Grand Adventure

Haven't updated the blog in a couple of days. I was having technical troubles, or maybe it was the technician. Any way, we are having a great time here in Virginia.

As I posted earlier, we drove the Skyline Drive on Sunday. It was a beautiful ride and the weather was really nice.

Monday started out really overcast and we did have a quick rain before we were ready to head out but  cleared up pretty much by 9:30 so off we when. We were headed to Fincastle, Va.  To a quilt shop that I had found in my Quilters Travel  companion. We decided to take the back roads and it was really a back road. Narrow country road without even a center strip. Nice and curvy so John had fun driving them. We found the quilt store and while I shopped John sat on their front porch with a cup of coffee (  courtesy of the lovely lady from the store ) and enjoyed the view. I did find a couple of things I wanted an thankfully they shipped.

After the quilt store we headed for the old downtown area to see some of the old building and visit their local historical museum. It was very interesting to see all their exhibits. After the museum we decided to try a local place for lunch. We ended up at The Tea Tavern. Had a really nice lunch with fresh baked bread. Yummy.

From there we headed to Wythesville for another quilt store. It was a little farther than we thought but we made it. And again the ladies from the store gave John a cup of coffee to drink and a front porch to sit on. Another wonderful shop that also ships. I will have two presents to myself waiting when I get home.

After stopping for dinner we arrived back at camp about 7:30. All in all I would say it was a great day. I have the best husband in the world that would take a whole day of vacation to take me quilt store shopping and was happy to do it for me.

I don't know if I mentioned that the nights have been really cool here or should I say cold to these thin blooded Texans. We actually had to borrow a heater from the nice folk here at the KOA.  It was definitely appreciated Monday night because it was in the low 40's. and that is really cold when you are in a tent. But we are hackers so we just snuggled closer.

Tuesday we decided to get something to eat on our way to Waynesboro, so we stopped at this neat place near the campground called the Pink Cadillac Grill. Now if you are an Elvis fan this is the place for you, it was done up with all these pictures and memorabilia of Elvis including a motorcycle he rode in one of his movies. It was fun and the food and service were great.

After breakfast we headed up to Waynesboro to the start of the Blue Ridge Parkway. But first we had to stop at the Honda dealer to replace the headset in my helmet. Apparently a wire was broke and all though I could hear John he could hear me. And I know most of you guys would say so what's the problem but we actually like to talk to each other while we ride.

 We then drove over to the Parkway and headed down. We only travel about 50 miles but we stopped at a lot of overlooks. We had lunch at the Royal Oaks Resort in Love, Virginia. It was really cool. We had sandwiches on the patio. We had a great day and even thought the clouds came and went we never saw the rain. Sunshine most of the way. We stopped in Lexington on the way back and bought a couple of steaks, borrowed a grill from the KOA folks and had a wonderful dinner with home fried potatoes and a salad.

Today we took our time having breakfast. Sausage and biscuits cooked in our camp oven. After cleaning up we headed to The Natural Bridge. We had been there years ago with the girls but a lot has changed. The bridge is still a marvel to look at but it is now a private enterprise so you paid to get  in and they had mor tourist things to do. We hiked all the way to the falls beyond the bridge and back.
Took lots of pictures and had a good time. Back at the bike we had peanut butter and blueberry jam sandwiches for lunch. Thank you Kathy Morgan for the wonderful jam.

Then we went over to The Caverns at the Natural Bridge. Took the tour. It is amazing what wonders nature creates over the course of time. Of course there were a lot of stairs involved and since we had already hiked two miles at the bridge this just about did us both in, so we headed back to camp and had a cup of coffee with our feet up.

Since we are headed down to Cherokee, North Carolina in the morning we started trying to reorganize all our stuff to fit back in the camper. Now we have had dinner and are enjoying a quite evening. Be sure to check out our pictures on Facebook. Until next time. Goodnight.