This is a retrospective blog of my seven-week exploration of Virginia along with a journey through the Shenandoah National Park and on down the Blue Ridge Parkway to Cherokee, North Carolina. 'Retrospective' means simply that it wasn't written during the trip, but is being written in hindsight a little over a year later. Baaswell Sheep accompanied me and is writing the blog in the way he's done my later blogs, since he's so good with the color commentary. Unfortunately, since I didn't plan for this blog back them, my pictures are limited to the major attractions, but I'll try to make those galleries a little bigger than I do in my later blogs.
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Today was a pretty strange day. While we never looked at the forecast, we were told that it got over one hundred degrees, and I'd dare say that it sure felt that way. My companion did a lot of remote work in our tavern room, but he ventured out for short periods of time, visiting a few of the shops and buildings, getting lunch at the Raleigh Bakery, but never staying out very long. Being in all that heat really messes with a person's (or sheep's) constitution, and we were too tired and lacking of hunger to go anywhere that night, so we just raided the snack backpack and had a light makeshift dinner in the tavern house's common room. Not a very busy day, but I've collected below a handful of the pictures we took.
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Today was a pretty strange day. While we never looked at the forecast, we were told that it got over one hundred degrees, and I'd dare say that it sure felt that way. My companion did a lot of remote work in our tavern room, but he ventured out for short periods of time, visiting a few of the shops and buildings, getting lunch at the Raleigh Bakery, but never staying out very long. Being in all that heat really messes with a person's (or sheep's) constitution, and we were too tired and lacking of hunger to go anywhere that night, so we just raided the snack backpack and had a light makeshift dinner in the tavern house's common room. Not a very busy day, but I've collected below a handful of the pictures we took.