2021 Fall Trip - Day 35 - 9/27/2021

Monday, Sept. 27, 2021 - Up through Virginia today (374 miles driving):

2-and-1/2 hours after leaving Kingsport, Tennessee we reached Falls Ridge Preserve (part of The Nature Conservancy):

There were a couple of other cars in the parking area. It is a beautiful day to get out for a little hike to see some waterfalls:

Not bad "water-flow" for September 27. Wendy found this place by googling "waterfalls along I-81" - very cool. Hey, you might have something like this in your own backyard - get out and explore!

It was a nice 1.2 mile hike, in a little more than 1/2 hour - up through the field, a loop through the woods, and back down through the field:

Back at the car, Wendy made lunch, and then it was a nice drive through the Virginia countryside:

And we were down at Peggy and Norm's place right at 2 PM:

We took a lovely hike around the neighborhood:

and then Wendy and I headed down the road - but not before Peggy gave us a picture from our old Darden days:

Ah, "Once Upon A Time".

We mailed postcards in Nellysford, Virginia 22958:

And went north on the "valley road", between I-81 to our west, and Skyline Drive to our east - just didn't have the time that Skyline Drive would have demanded. 2 hours after leaving Nellysford we checked into Super 8 Front Royal, Virginia:

It was wonderful seeing friends on this roadtrip, and Thank you God for these GREAT adventures!

Music for today:

The Great Jazz Trio - At The Village Vanguard Again!, live album, recorded 1977, released 2000


The Great Jazz Trio - Someday My Prince Will Come, 2004


The Pretenders - Learning to Crawl, 1984 third album


The Steve Miller Band - The Best Of 1968-1973

I like the first 5 albums by The Steve Miller Band A LOT!!!

The Temptations - Millennium Collection: Best Of The Temptations, Vol.1 - The '60s, 1999


The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues, 1988


Martin Luther King Jr. - A Call To Conscience, 2002 (7 cds) - cd 6 today


U2 - "Bullet the Blue Sky", 1987 song from The Joshua Tree:


lyrics:

"In the locust wind comes a rattle and hum"

and

"Outside is America"