Friday, August 27, 2022 Before departing this morning, we decided to explore more of Little Buffalo State Park. We drove back alongside Lake Holman and past the Visitor Center to a parking area for several trail heads. We walked to Shoaff’s Mill, crossing Clay’s Bridge along the way. Shoaff’s Mill […]

Friday, August 26, 2022 We left the Charlottesville campground around 10:15 and only stopped to fuel up, again eating sandwiches that Jane had prepared along the way. Much of the driving was along I-81, one of our nation’s truckiest highways. After traveling through Virginia and West Virginia and finally entering

Thursday, August 25, 2022 Today, we left the campground a bit before 9 am and arrived early for our 10 am tour of Monticello. We presented our tickets and were scanned at the Rubenstein Visitor Center from which we took a short bus ride up to Monticello or “Little Mountain”,

Wednesday, August 24, 2022 We departed home today around 10 am and drove the 3.5-hour route to Charlottesville, VA, non-stop, eating sandwiches that Jane had prepared for lunch as we rolled along. The drive was pleasant taking us through serene Piedmont country with little traffic. In North Carolina, we traversed