Escape to Mountains

 Monday June 14

The weather has been hot, and since we love to travel we decided to go to the mountains to cool off!  Today we headed to Fancy Gap in southern Virginia next to the Blue Ridge Parkway just north of where it enters NC.  We set up camp and enjoyed the cool evening breezes!

Tuesday

We drove to Floyd in time to eat lunch at the Floyd Country Store, our favorite restaurant when we lived in the area. After decades, it is still a busy restaurant with great food! It was great to see that Floyd is still a busy town!

Wednesday

The Blue Ridge Music Center is on the Parkway a little before it crosses into NC. They have free concerts every weekday at noon.  We always go there when we are in the area. The “band” was a group of musicians from the area who never played together before.  One musician would start playing a bluegrass tune and then all of the others would join in! They were great!

Thursday

We headed north on the Parkway to eat lunch at the Villa Appalachia Winery.  The food was great! We drove back down the Parkway stopping to hike the trails around Mabry Mill.

Friday

We are driving to Myrtle Beach today to see the Hills.  When we got  set up in the KOA,  Gretchen called Kelley to see what we would be doing tomorrow. Bottom line was Maggie was sick with a 103 degree fever.  So, we were not going to see them and decided to drive home Saturday.  It was disappointing not being able to see them, but things happen.  Overall, we had a great trip!