This is my last post from the Blue Ridge Parkway a few weeks ago.
Fortunately the clouds didn't mean rain and didn't really dampen our enthusiasm of going on the Viaduct, which was the last piece of engineering of the whole Blue Ridge Parkway.
Here it comes...
At times we could only see the railing, rather than the vistas of mountains.
But the side of Grandfather Mountain was pretty nice too!
See, down there the sun is still shining!!
This is where we turned around and went back to Hwy 221, which goes through the town of Linnville, pretty straight south to Marion...where we were able to turn onto Hwy 70 and go through Old Fort, then over the mountain pass on I-40 to Black Mountain, and we were home by 4:30!
Before we left the parkway, where most cars were going between 30 and 45 miles per hour...this was the car in front of us, going less than 30 mph. And there was this young woman standing up out of the sun roof with her camera/phone recording what they passed by. We old ladies worried that she would get hurt if they stopped, but actually she sat down after a while, and we could breathe again!
Today's quote:
We need connection and stories and experiences that help us transcend our own lives to connect with others and ideas bigger than ourselves.
JULIA TAYLOR
