Adventures including a visit to, drive thru and/or stay in Virginia
Wrapping up our time around DC After our day off, we spent 3 more days visiting more new NPS Sites and a new MLB Park before heading west. Visits to 4 new National Park Sites: Friday was a very eclectic NPS visit day, across Maryland, DC, and Virginia. It was Read more
SO MANY TO SEE!!! The first 3 days post-convention, we spent a majority of our time visiting National Park Sites, new & repeats, “counted” & only affiliated. Then we took a day off. DC Mall Visits to 4 (5) new National Park Sites and 8 (9) repeats: Monday, we drove Read more
Our 2nd NPTC Convention We joined the National Parks Travelers Club (NPTC) in 2018 and attended our 1st convention that summer in New Bedford, MA. This was the 1st one since then that fit into our schedule. We checked into the Hilton Garden Inn Waldorf, Maryland on Wednesday afternoon. Then, Read more
Basecamp to visit 3 new National Park Sites & 4 repeats: We stayed in Harpers Ferry, WV near the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers and the Tri-State Border of West Virginia, Maryland and Virginia, for 5 nights. We spent all 4 days visiting 7 National Park Sites. This Read more
America’s 1st “Gateway to the West”! Where we both walked in the footsteps of Daniel Boone along the Wilderness Road and over the Cumberland Gap. We also hiked up to the peak where Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia borders meet. And we camped in our 11th National Park Campground! That’s 3 Read more
Third time camping at Pocahontas State Park Over a 4-night stay, we mostly just hung out in the park (southwest of Richmond), enjoying the beautiful weather and the change of the seasons, doing a little hiking (saw a beaver!), and leisurely doing some chores. Unfortunately, while greasing The Monster, Mark Read more
Last Stop in the Southern Appalachians Camping between the Blue Ridge Mountains to the east and and the Alleghany Mountains to the west. We had a very nice visit with an “old” friend of Mark’s on the eastern side the Blue Ridge one day, and on another… A re-visit to Read more
Camping in Monroe, Virginia …about a mile from the Blue Ridge Parkway, MP 61.4 entrance, and not so high in the mountains as at Fancy Gap, at only 1,031′. First day here it RAINED all day and ended with nearby tornado warnings. That was a hang out/laundry day. Then we Read more
Camping in Fancy Gap, Virginia Less than a mile from the Blue Ridge, MP 199.4 entrance. We’re definitely in the mountains. At 2,914′, it got Cold at night, below freezing the first night! And Fancy Gap KOA, besides providing us with Eclipse sunglasses, provided a Weather Rock. It was quite Read more
First stop, Jersey Shore & Family We left Lizzy outside Philadelphia (Clarksboro, NJ) to “hotel it” on the Jersey Shore, spending Friday, Saturday and Sunday with Mark’s Kids & Grandkids. We had a lovely family weekend, with included Mark’s 1st & 2nd 70th Bday Parties: dinner on the beach in Read more