Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Christiansburg, Va

... to Roanoke, and because of the forth coming weather, our journey’s end along the Blue Ridge Parkway.

We feared continuing on southward along the Parkway, for the possibility of getting engulfed in the low rain clouds and heavy fog that awaited us....if we had continued. Therefore, with 'heavy' hearts and a type of 'hollow' feeling in our 'being', we decided that this was ...

We spent all of Friday and Saturday making up for lost time...while in town we had to hit up some of our favorite places...We grabbed some Szechuans for dinner and headed over to our friends house...mmm their sweet and sour chicken is to die for! 

Saturday was spent touring the campus and checking out their new changes, and then to visit our ...

We were in no rush to get to Salem, Va and since we had missed Skyline the day before, we spontaneously decided to exit of I-81 in order to drive the Blue Ridge Parkway down to Roanoke. We made a stop along the way at a trail near Lynchburg. The 1.6 mile loop trail takes you to a beautiful waterfall where we stopped for a picnic lunch.  It was such a gorgeous day - the weather was perfect - and this was just a really nice relaxing drive!  

... my life. Happy fathers day Rusty and thanks again for sharing this special adventure with me. Hope we have plenty more in our future.

We departed Chimney Rock by taking Highway Alternate 74 West (same way we came in), and by the way there are some 10+/- miles of amazing twisties on this road right around the town of Bat Cave, and once again we were on the Blue Ridge Parkway heading North.

We once again ...

One of our excursions that took us a little further was south to Roanoke; it was to be a bit of a Malc day really – but as you will see I did find a couple of ‘girly’ shots to include. The main reason for going was to visit the transport museum there…I feel the boys’ anticipation building and the girls ...

... htm – the show aired 249 episodes and I think I have seen most of them by now as it always seems to be showing re-runs whenever we have TV reception. (Something we don’t get now anyway since the US has gone completely digital, it’s ok when we have cable at the campsite though). Or at least I have seen the same episode 249 times???

We headed for the downtown district, many of the shows had been filmed here ...

Unfortunately, we have had quite a bit of rain during the first leg of this trip. We had originally planned to drive through the Blue Ridge Park Way via Sky Line Drive today. Since the weather really was not cooperating we decided to change the plan.

Sarah drove us from Harrisburg, PA to ...

... if you ask the girl scouts to pose with the cookies they'll probably be a little weirded out. Especially if you ask them with a funny accent. Post dinner we caught the bus back into VT and Mike showed us some of the local nightlife. For a small town Blaskburg seems to have quite a lot to offer, incl lots of live music. We headed to a large, packed bar and met with a couple of Mike's friends, and settled in for a few drinks and some banter. I'd have to say my ...

... outside. The hoedown was packed to overflowing with musicians and dancers. There are chairs to sit upon, small tables if you are eating, and standing room. We did not attempt to dance. The next morning we headed towards the Carter Fold in Hiltons. This is another stop on the Crooked Road.

... on to Christianburg. Just too tired to move on, we tried to get another motel, but nooo, it was "home coming" weeekend for the students of Virginia Tech....but, in the end we chatted a bit with the Indian owner of the Knights Inn, and he lowered his rate for us to 80 Dollars (from 100), so he had his place full. We had another good salad at Ruby Tuedays and went straight to our expensive beds...