Today was a travel day so we quickly folded our tents and beat it out of Green Mountain Park and its cramped RV space layout, ridiculously expensive wifi and early morning army of riding mowers and gas-powered line trimmers that descend from parts unknown to cut the tiny fraction of space occupied by lawn. It was certainly buzzing around there this morning.
We jumped onto pretty, mostly one lane each way rural roads eastbound through North Carolina until we got to I-77 where we headed north toward the border. We passed Mount Airy, alleged Mayberry of TV fame, again. The last time we came by this area was during our southbound trip from Tennessee a couple weeks back.
Right past Mount Airy, we crossed into Virginia and immediately started to climb up to the Blue Ridge. There is a six or seven mile stretch where we encountered semis creeping along in the slow lane but our F-250 seemed to have plenty of power because we passed almost all of them despite pulling a six ton trailer behind us. At the top of the hill, we turned off I-77 and drove a circuitous course until finding the Fancy Gap Motel and RV Park directly on the Blue Ridge Parkway where we pulled in and set up. It is cooler and the humidity is lower here, keeping us from being fricasseed during set up. We will go for a drive on the Parkway tomorrow. We have seen all of the Parkway in North Carolina but none of it in Virginia and, since I consider this the best road for scenery in the U.S., I can hardly wait.
The sunset is superb here. Click here