We had breakfast at the Holiday Inn and headed out for Shenandoah National Park. Wow! We traveled up the mountain, down the mountain....up a different mountain, down that mountain. We did that for almost 3 hours. The mountain roads are so different from the Rockies. There are not really any switchbacks, just one rounded corner after another. Of course, those rounded curves were really high and the turn offs were overlooking great vistas of green mountains that graded to blue and then lighter blue with each following range of mountains until they blended in with the sky. It was fascinating. The roads were good and once I got over the initial mountain road going up fear, it was great. I had read about the Sky Drive and now I have driven it. PeeWee liked the rest areas the best.
We had planned to camp there tonight, but circumstances changed that. Then I figured we could drive on to Cherokee National Forest and we would camp there tonight rather than tomorrow night, but that changed once we got there. My quiet little creek that would run close to our campsite turned out to be a lake the size of Lake Martin and was apparently the one spot all of that part of Tennessee and Virginia went on weekends.
There were no campsites available. Just as well as there was a lot of very happy people in boats and swimsuits. We would not have got much sleep tonight. We drove on until we found another Holiday Inn (PeeWee likes them). So, we get a good nights sleep, an early start and we head to the Smokey Mountains tomorrow.
A prayer goes out tonight for Jeelani who is in the emergency room tonight.
Sleep well all.
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