So I can beat my dad at poker - Blue Ridge Parkway trip day 4

Posted on May 5, 2008 by travelingmcmahans

I’m cozied up on a lovely soft bed with a down blanket, I’ve just had a delicious dinner followed by hot cocoa and there are mountains outside my window. I can’t see them but I have the curtain open anyway because I like knowing they’re there. I’ve decided I was supposed to live in the [...]

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Reruns and new motorcycle friends - Blue Ridge Parkway trip day 3

Posted on May 5, 2008 by travelingmcmahans

[posted a day after the fact because I had no internet at the farm]

We left Bedford early (I wasn’t in any hurry to linger at the affordable but grubby Bedford Days Inn) and took Big Island Highway back up to 501 to rerun a few miles of the Parkway. It was so rainy and cold [...]

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