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Roanoke Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Roanoke, United States
Roanoke to Mt. Airy
We travelled the last leg of our trip on the Blue Ridge Parkway coming off at Fancy Gap. We stayed over at Mt Airy famous as home town of Andy Griffith. The Andy Griffith show was actually filmed here. I suppose you are all saying who the hell is Andy ...
...on the trail of the lonesome pine.
... pull up and take pics, or just take in the view. So peaceful. I ended up driving nearly the whole day. The distance from Asheville to Roanoke is only 243 (as the crows fly), but with the speed limit and the winding roads, it took me most of the day. I ...
Williamsburg to Petersburg to Farmville to Roanoke
... the city, so I ended up getting a room in Rocky Mount, 30 miles to the South. If I'd had time to drive around Roanoke before our dinner date I would have simply kept going south, but because I wanted to see the location of the former mission office/home ...
Welcome To The (Antebellum?) South, Charlie Brown!
... to rip you off. Once fully clean, we point ourselves to Roanoke, the nearest big city, in the interest of finding a Kinko’s from which Cornbread can print and mail that form – ...
A Quick Trip Back to America
... to make the journey back from New Zealand. After the wedding, things were quiet at home. I spent the rest of my time in Roanoke catching up with old friends and hanging out with my family members. I don't know when I'll be heading back to Virginia ...
Changing Plans - Pending Weather Behavior
... ' feeling in our 'being', we decided that this was the place to get off...so we exited the Parkway and went down into Roanoke to stay for the night, knowing that we would not return to the Parkway on this journey homeward. After stopping at Cracker Barrel ...
Back out on the Outer Banks
... were quite gregarious and taught us much about the early life in such an environment. We also, accidentally, I might add, found the Roanoke Marsh Lighthouse. It's a two story affair and was rebuilt in nineteen ninety nine. We stopped by the ...
The Blue Ridge Parkway
Today we drove along the Blue Ridge Parkway as far as Roanoke. We stopped along the way a few times; to look at some track from an old logging railroad and hike up to the waterfall, (though there wasn't much water), for a short walk to look over ...
Home Sweet Roanoke, VA
... remained light and we were next to Roanoke by 7:30. We stopped for a coffee, before continuing for another hour through Roanoke to Dr Tuck's house. We were welcomed by his wife, Sara. We showered and changed quickly before going to a ...
A Days Rest in Roanoke
We all woke up late to find a huge breakfast spread in front of us with everything from English muffins to chopped fruit. After breakfast we had to get changed back into our cycling gear for a press conference. After ...
Cruising on the Smith Mountain Lake
After another great breakfast including the southern specialty of 'grits', the remaining 3 who had yet to play golf left to do so while the others went to the club swimming pool. After a relaxing afternoon we left for an evening ...
Banks with no money (nothing new there then!)
... a magnet for man for hundreds of years; the first European settlers an English group settled here in 1585 (On what is now Roanoke Is) only to 'disappear' and forever be known as the "Lost Colony' ...
Good idea...bad timing
Now that the house is under contract and closing is in January or February, I've gotta figure out what to do with the motorcycle. I don't want to have to worry about moving it in the middle of blizzard season. I had the great idea to take my ...
Trains+boats +planes - without the boats +planes
... at these – a pity about the guy sitting on the wall though! http://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/2008-11-04-roanoke-taubman-museum_N.htm Anyway all this had made us hungry – and thirsty, did I say it was sweltering? Since ...
Day 127 - What A Chore
Today we were on the road for about 9am and just drove the 50 miles or so to the next campground on the Parkway at Roanoke Mountain as we needed to go into a town to do chores. We checked in with the camp host first to find out whether we needed to ...
Epilogue
... , a chance to explore DC with my parents, and a great reunion with Kristin and her parents. Once I made it back to Roanoke, I became somewhat overwhelmed by the pile of things to do, but have been slowly working my way through them, content to have ...
On Our Way To The OBX
... Jethro & Co on a case but they were obvious solving crimes else where. We drove across the State Line into NC to Roanoke Rapids & checked into a motel. We had dinner at a Cracker Barrel Store which was across the road [haddock with veg, it was ...
Home Sweet Home
... sleep on Spencer’s couch, it was time to go home. I grabbed my rental car and started the 4 hour drive down to Roanoke. It’s a route I’ve done often in the past few years and has become inextricably tied to my brief trips ...
Inn for the day
... $18.50 Other $12 Total $79.85 Day 1 Avg $ Day $80 Avg M Day 365 Comments Stayed at Days Inn, Roanoke, VA Ate at Subway for lunch, Days Inn restaurant for dinner Did: DROVE. 6.5 hours driving So, now for a good night's ...
Virginia?
... We're stopped for lunch now at a Denny's, which I think is making Chris cry a little on the inside, but they have free wifi. Hard to pass up a deal like that. Not sure where we'll be tonight. Asheville? Memphis? Roanoke? We'll see. Pictures to ...
roadside pottery
ok, actually some pottery place way south of Roanoke but can't remember where and don't feel like digging through my memory box. quiet, i'm a packrat and it is what it is. i think we drove to NC thinking about bbq but ended up turning around ...
Counting Down...
Of course, I've been counting down for the last few months...Finally we are so close it's a deadline! The shoes that, hopefully, are going to take me all over Italy arrived today. I ordered my contacts the other day and they should be here early next ...
Are we still in Virginia
Longest state EVER! Fell asleep in Virgina, woke up HOURS later...in Virgina. Ugh, I don't like driving through ...
Roanoke VA
... but I don't think I could live there with no Henry's to walk to. It's at least 20 miles from the city of Roanoke. If you ever travel this way I would definitely recommend a stay at the Bent Mountain Lodge I wish we could have stayed ...
Blue Ridge Parkway Teil 1
... der ganze Tag eine Fahrt durch durch einen riesigen Wald mit einigen wenigen Häusern. Im späteren Nachmittag erreichten wir Roanoke wo noch ein "Speed Shopping" auf dem Programm stand. Unsere Stationen waren Best Buy, Staples und ein grosser Sportladen ...
our weather challenge
Visited President Andrew Johnson's (the other President Johnson). home and historical site. He became President after Lincoln was killed. Very interesting. Then we met winter storm Virgil. "Life is like a box of ...
Blue Ridge Parkway
Left Cherokee & started travelling along the Blue Ridge Parkway which is a 469 mile scenic drive that follows closely the high ridges between the Smoky Mountains National Park & Shenandoah National Park, spanning North Carolina & Virginia. No ...
My Summer Literary Endeavors!
... . In the book The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins), the United States is referred to as North America because the United States has been overthrown. The people running the country now seem to be selfish communist-like figures, showing their residents who is ...