We had 16 miles on the Blue Ridge Parkway to start the cool, sunny day. A magnificent ride. At the junction of the Blue Ridge and Skyline Drive parkways, we descended from our last mountain of the trip and started eastward to Charlottesville. The countryside is similar but on this side of the mountains there is no sign of the poverty we occasionally saw in the Shenandoah Valley.
We stopped for lunch at a store which has been owned and operated by the same family for 127 years. There we met a couple from Manassas who are also finishing a cross country ride. Many shared experiences. They started in Oregon a couple of weeks after we did.
At Charlottesville we were lucky to find a room on a football weekend, thanks to a computer glitch which had left some rooms unsold at the first motel we tried. After a shower and rest we walked through the historic center of the UVa campus, where my father and younger brother both started their college educations.
On the walk back to our motel we enjoyed watching the band practice their halftime show.
We have a good web connection, so I'll include pictures from yesterday and today:
Sandy on Blue Ridge Pky Thursday, telling our story.
Our cabin just off the Blue Ridge Pky.
Blue Ridge Pky Friday.
Wyant's Store, White Hall, Va.
Univ. of Va. Rotunda
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