Sunday, October 31, 2004

Boo!!!!!! Happy Halloween


Another 7 Day Weekend.
We started the week in the Mts of Virginia and just took a bunch of backroads through the Mts. We made stops at General Campbells grave, he led the men on the Overmountain Victory Trail, then we stopped at Kings Mt and Cowpens Nat Battlefields. Once we were out of the mountains we spent the night at A.H.Stephens State Park, he was the Vice President of the Confederacy, didn't know that did you. We spent the morning doing a tour of the museum and his house which is 90% original, furniture and all.
Right now we are camped in Elko Ga. it's about 10 miles south of Perry, we will be here for a week before moving on. Yesterday we went to Anderson for the National POW Museum, if you're in the area you gotta go to this, just be sure to take a hanky with you.
The park that we are at has a hot tub that nobody else uses and FREE WI-FI, we may never leave. We will be crossing the border into Florida and onto Ocala on Nov 8th.
More when ever it happens

Friday, October 22, 2004


We spent yesterday touring Saltville and visiting the Museum of the Middle Appalachians. Today we took a bunch of backroads and ended up climbing Backbone Rock to the top of the old railroad tunnel, then we walked part of the Appalachian Trial into the town of Damacus Va.. After that we walked part of the Virginia Creeper Trail which follows a great little mountain stream. We ate lunch at one old mill and then stumbled across this one (pictured above) which has been in operation for 214 years, bought some ground popcorn meal to try and make some bread with. The weather has been great and the fall color is fantastic.

Wednesday, October 20, 2004


We're on the road again and heading south but as you can see by the sign we're not to sure of where we're going. Right now we're camped at Chilihowie, Va. for about a week, YES THE Chilihowie Va. Cathy's doing some genealogy research and we're just cruising the back road to see what we can find Tomorow we plan on spending the day touring the town of Saltville Va. YES THE Saltville Va. Actually it has a ton of history to it from pre-historic through the Civil War so it should be a long day. The fall colors down here are at about 80% but there has been a light rain or drizzle for the last two days. Hopefully the sun will come out to show off the colors for us.
More to come later.