Early morning rain shower had everyone scrambling to cover up and take in. I left out the chairs, table and firewood from the night before, so I put up the awning low and moved the firewood and went back to bed. It was much better than the middle of the night scratching on the table outside. I was sound asleep when I got up and took care of that, so I have no idea what was going on then. Continue reading
Category Archives: National Park Service
Shenandoah National Park, Blue Ridge Parkway
We started the day off with a big breakfast of sunnyside up eggs, bacon, potatoes, toast coffee and OJ. We ate outside under the awning. It was very resortish. Big Meadows is one of the quietest campgrounds that I have ever been to. There is a large RV up the hill from us, and they run a generator in the morning during the allowable hours. It’s barely audible and sounds like an air conditioner running somewhere undeterminable. Continue reading
Trip Planning
Shenandoah National Park, Big Meadows Lodge,
Well, we have a trip planned for July and it seemed prudent to make some reservations for the places that we are planning on visiting. The idea of travelling in a modern RV, (now named Mercedes), and traveling where our whims take us, unfettered by the constraints of daily life and schedule, is obviously so 1970’s it hurts. Continue reading
First Manassas Battlefield
So there we were in Manassas with a brand new RV. Where to go? The nearest cool place was the Manassas Battlefield, (First battle of Bull Run) the place Stonewall Jackson got his name. Continue reading