ORIGINAL: DamnSkippy
BC, you were only 5 miles or so from my Mom down in VA (Stuarts Draft where 64 merges into 81 by White's Truck stop). That can be a long merciless run down the valley. 81 for what like 500 or 600 miles from where you got on in NY? Ouch!
Wife's cousin's spoke of trying to get out of Bristol parking lot, I think they gave up and have been there for a few years now! ;-)
Well, hope you enjoyed your trip through VA. I'm making that run tonight! It's beautiful, but repetitive. Farms, rolling hills, cows, farms, rolling hills, cows..
We went from the NY Thruway I87 to I287 to 78 to I81. The first three were about an hour and a half each - 81 was ablut half of the 11 hour drive (each way). It WAS a long and "vista challenged" stretch, for sure.
We took the shuttle (free) between the Bristol track and the White Top (free) parking area. Sunday was the longest wait, but much better than the last time I was there (10 years ago).
Yup ...... farms, hills, cows, the odd horse or mule......and every third farm is the enormous "triad" of crosses - 2 white and the middle one yellow.
