We’re home after our most recent RV road trip to and along the Blue Ridge Parkway. It was a another wonderful trip, filled with experiences almost too many to remember. I’m glad I kept a daily journal.
Friday Oct. 11, 2019
Not a fun day to drive the RV. We drove in rain all day, sometimes in very heavy downpours, through Milwaukee, around Chicago and across Indiana. The rain finally ceased by the time we stopped for the night at a home near Abington, IN. It was our first time using Boondockers Welcome, a online service for RV campers. It’s awesome when you get to meet people who welcome you to park your camper in their yards. Many of them offer electric and water hookups.
Saturday, Oct. 12
We decided to visit the U.S. Air Force Museum in Dayton, OH. Spent four hours at this amazing place and didn’t see it all. So many aircraft and so much history. Here’s just a sampling of our photos at this free museum.
We spent Saturday night at Lazy Day Campground near Jackson, OH.
Sunday, Oct. 13
We left Lazy Day Campground (home of Killer Duck) and drove into West Virginia to the New River Gorge where we hiked the Long Point trail to an overlook of the big bridge. It was a beautiful sunny day with a high around 75.
We arrived at our second Bookndockers Welcome host home outside of Roanoke, VA, actually in the rural area of Bent Mountain. This was a beautiful location on a 40-acre “gentleman’s farm”.
Our host told us about a nearby trail that offered a scenic hike, so the next morning we drove to Bottom Creek Gorge Nature Preserve and hiked to an observation point where we saw Virginia’s second-tallest waterfall (just a trickle that day because of drought conditions) and hiked down to the creek.
We drove into Vinton, VA for lunch and grocery shopping. Then more hiking at the Roanoke River Trail and Buck Mountain Overlook, followed by wine tasting at AmRhein Winery before heading back for a second night at our host’s lovely Virginia farm.
In our next post: We head south on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Any issues with ticks? Or were you wearing treated clothing/skin when you were hiking through those woods?? They are NASTY this year! I’ve traveled the Blue Ridge/Skyline Drive a few times; always different, always gorgeous.
We didn’t have any problems with bugs. I treated some of our clothing earlier in the summer with permithrin for other trips so that may have helped.