Blue Ridge Mountains


After visiting Clarksburg, we crossed the mountains on old Route 50 east, picked up the Skyline Drive through Shenandoah National Park, followed it to Charlottesville, visited Monticello, then followed the Blue Ridge Parkway on to Asheville before making our way home.	The first day was overcast, rather limiting our view.

However, we saw deer, turkeys, and bears!

Here are Allison, me, and Rob at Pollock Knob, beside a very attractive dead tree.	And Allison at its trunk.

This is a tunnel, just as the signs explain.

And this is Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson. He was its designer as well as the third President of the United States and the man responsible for the three attainments listed on his tombstone.
	The stone reads: Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom and father of the University of Virginia. Jefferson wrote his own epitath and those were the accomplishments for which he specifically wished to be remembered.

Stream and falls in Shenandoah National Park

Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina.	And a picture from the Blue Ridge Parkway that offers some sense of distances.