Sleep Inn Tanglewood Roanoke

... would allow.

While at The Natural Bridge Park, we took a nature trail up into the woods and to a replica of a MONACAN INDIAN Village. This showed how the MONACAN INDIANS, who at that time were one of the most powerful tribes in that region, lived 300 years ago.


After leaving The Natural Bridge Park, we headed back to the campground, finished packing up our gear and ...

... and their family in Radford were had a feast of good ole southern down home cooking.  After dinner we headed back up to Salem and stopped by our old water hole, Mac and Bobs  to join the party!  

On our way out of Town on Sunday we made sure to stop by Alligator Alley, a favorite store of ours, for my husband to pick up a new Lacoste shirt.

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!  

... yes we hadn’t actually made it in there yet!
I will leave the pictures to tell the story, if you want to see even more (and there might be someone who does) go to this link. http://www.vmt.org/



There are plenty of exhibits inside but the main draw is the collection of old train engines and rolling stock outside ...

... VA where we stopped off for lunch at a place called Dave's Tavern. We had some great sandwiches and were waited on by a VERY friendly guy named Mitchell. We believe he originated from Malibu due to his repeated use of the word dude and "right on" and he was really bummed about the rain. However ...

I just wanted to summarize a few details of our trip in this entry. We had such a great 2 weeks and wonderful experiences across the country. We both said we would definitely do it again and are already plotting and planning the next area of the country we'd like to see. SUMMARY Days Traveled: 14 Total Miles: Just under 5000 Total Stops: 10 Number of States we hit: 14 (VA, TN, MS, LA, TX, NM, CO, KS, MO, IN, IL ...

After about 5 hours of sleep, we woke up early and got back on the road. The wind was much better today and we were able to make good time. We drove about 13 hours through Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and West Virginia back to our Appalachian Mountains. Not quite as impressive as Colorado or NM mountains, but still a really pretty drive. We arrived in Moneta, VA where ...

... TP for an RV?) and sent us on our way. We spent the night at our lakehouse in Moneta, VA and went out with our lake friends for dinner and drinks. Everyone was sorry to hear about my job, but excited for us about our trip and I think if we asked them, a few would've packed their bags and come with. Tonmorrow - we head to TN!

... to the Hertz office at Knoxville airport and the very helpful lady there organised a new agreement for us, keeping our same car and dropping it at Baltimore Airport (where we fly to Niagara Falls from) all for about half what the airfares would be!!!!!!!!! Another bit of grovelling that worked well! We drove firstly east and then north, passing through some nice suburbs and then once ...

... How long? Are you on vacation? (What? Am I on vacation? No, actually, I'm playing hooky from work for the next three weeks. They think I have the chicken pox. Yes, I think this is a ridiculous question.) And they made a big deal of Mario bringing his toolbox on vacation, thinking he was trying to steal jobs from the Americans or something. No officer, I have tools so that I can fix my rust bucket of a car when it breaks down. Bathroom ...