Martha's Rock and Rosa's Fleeting Visit
T.S. and I took a drive along the Skyline Drive of Shenandoah National Park this weekend. The weather was a pleasant 65 degrees and sunny so it would have been wrong to pass up an opportunity to get out of DC. The entrance to Skyline Drive is only 50 miles from DC but when you are skipping along the top of the Blue Ridge Mountains there's no hint of the city on the horizon - just pastoral Virginia countryside as far as one can see.
From the Panorama Visitors Center we hiked four miles roundtrip to a summit called Martha's Rock. It was good exercise but frankly, the view was no better than it was from the highway. The trail was almost crowded with day hikers like ourselves so there was no pretending we were in wilderness. If Martha's Rock is not in "1000 Places to See Before You Die" I'm going to write it in and check it off - because I'm not going back to that particular summit.
I showed up at the Capitol Building today to pay my respects to Rosa Parks but she had already left. She was the first female to lay in state in the Rotunda but she didn't stay long - only from 6 pm Sunday night to 10 am Monday morning. What's the hurry?
T.S. and I took a drive along the Skyline Drive of Shenandoah National Park this weekend. The weather was a pleasant 65 degrees and sunny so it would have been wrong to pass up an opportunity to get out of DC. The entrance to Skyline Drive is only 50 miles from DC but when you are skipping along the top of the Blue Ridge Mountains there's no hint of the city on the horizon - just pastoral Virginia countryside as far as one can see.
From the Panorama Visitors Center we hiked four miles roundtrip to a summit called Martha's Rock. It was good exercise but frankly, the view was no better than it was from the highway. The trail was almost crowded with day hikers like ourselves so there was no pretending we were in wilderness. If Martha's Rock is not in "1000 Places to See Before You Die" I'm going to write it in and check it off - because I'm not going back to that particular summit.
I showed up at the Capitol Building today to pay my respects to Rosa Parks but she had already left. She was the first female to lay in state in the Rotunda but she didn't stay long - only from 6 pm Sunday night to 10 am Monday morning. What's the hurry?
posted by Kevcham at 6:23 PM
1 Comments:
I wondered if you would get to the Capitol for that. That doesn't seem like a very long time, they didn't have anyone else scheduled did they?
Not much happening for Halloween in Peavine tonight, didn't see Grayman but the rest of the tribe was by early.
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