LAST ONE FOR NOW

This is probably the last entry in our travel blog at least for a while. We'll be home in a couple days. It's still snowing in Maine . Good grief! I do miss our family and friends, tho... a lot.

For those interested, we did use a wonderful Canon 5D digital SLR...for about 5% of the photos on this blog. All the rest were taken with an inexpensive little Canon digital point-and-shoot Power Shot SD 1000. It was easy to stick in my pocket and take anywhere. I have been extremely impressed with this little camera. It's really tough (I dropped it twice, once on a rock, and stepped on it once) and takes amazingly nice quality pix. It endured a huge amount of dust in the desert.

It has 7.1 megapixels. I got it used on eBay for 129.00. I certainly got my $$ worth! I highly recommend it.

I'm so glad everyone seemed to enjoy the blog. I'll pick up where we left off on our next adventure!

LUNCH ON THE PARKWAY

ANNIE GETS COMFORTABLE

Annie, at age (almost) 13 still pops up on the couch for a nap! (while we are moving, lol)

THE GIRLS HIKE

BLUE RIDGE HIKE

Paul and I took the dogs (for part of ) a beautiful hike to Linvall Falls in the mountains. It was dreary and foggy, but lovely just the same. And the girls had a blast.

FOGGY TUNNELS

We didn't have very good luck today on the Blue Ridge Parkway. The fog simply wouldn't lift. We went a different route for about 50 miles, but it was still too foggy to drive safely. Some of the shoulders here are only a few feet wide, no guardrails, and drops of 1000 feet or more. No problem at all when the visibility is OK, but.....

Here are some shots of the tunnels we went through on the Parkway. Pitch black inside, with fog billowing at the entrance and exit. Notice the headlights on the car exiting the tunnel...that's all you can see, headlights.

We are parked at a Love's truck stop for the night, we'll try again tomorrow. I doubt things will have changed. If it' still socked in, we'll head on home on I 81.

Boo Hoo...it's our last shot at a fun motorcycle ride before we go home to snowy Maine. And nobody will feel sorry for us at all!! haha...

SOCKED IN WITH BLUE RIDGE FOG

We are still on the Blue Ridge Parkway. We are totally socked in with pea soup fog. Totally. We finally found a place to pull off and hopefully the fog will lift enough for us to travel. If not: we'll spend the night here, I guess.

We've been going 15-20 mph through this pass...very steep and very curvy. Paul said at times he could only see 15 feet in front of him. So much for the lovely view!