Get me outta here! Work is ridiculous…. That being said any excuse to get out of town is a good one!
Mark had a genius idea to head into Virginia and go hiking! We both heard good things online about Old Rag Mountain…(insert joke here…hehehe) So we rented a car and left on a Saturday morning, made it to Old Rag late morning and did the 9 mile trail. It was gorgeous!! Nice to leave the rainy, cityscape for some sunny, beautiful scenery. The trail was not that difficult, but the rock scramble was challenging – in the most fun way possible…LOVED IT! Involving climbing and sliding and following light blue spray painted dots and the view from the top was truly amazing. (photo credit:mark)
We drove through skyline drive in the shenandoah national park… again so beautiful! Pictures don’t quite capture it!
Stayed the night in Strasburg, a tiny little town that was supposed to be hosting an Oktoberfest, but the weather changed and they closed down early….booooo! Most hilarious evening of attempting to find a bar in ANY of the neighboring towns proved to be fruitless… isn’t every small town supposed to have some dive of a bar, where all the townies hang out??? Apparently not…
Next day we checked out the luray caverns!!! Much like Wall Drug in SD there are signs EVERYWHERE for luray caverns. Interesting side note from the tour – some dude figured out how to play music on the stalactites (and yes I did have to look up the spelling on that) making it one of the largest instruments around. Our tour/admission included a car museum that was next door to the caverns which also turned out to be pretty interesting… amazing to think that my grandparents could have ridden in some of models…
Sadly, weekends come to end….booo going back to work….
Mark had a genius idea to head into Virginia and go hiking! We both heard good things online about Old Rag Mountain…(insert joke here…hehehe) So we rented a car and left on a Saturday morning, made it to Old Rag late morning and did the 9 mile trail. It was gorgeous!! Nice to leave the rainy, cityscape for some sunny, beautiful scenery. The trail was not that difficult, but the rock scramble was challenging – in the most fun way possible…LOVED IT! Involving climbing and sliding and following light blue spray painted dots and the view from the top was truly amazing. (photo credit:mark)
We drove through skyline drive in the shenandoah national park… again so beautiful! Pictures don’t quite capture it!
Stayed the night in Strasburg, a tiny little town that was supposed to be hosting an Oktoberfest, but the weather changed and they closed down early….booooo! Most hilarious evening of attempting to find a bar in ANY of the neighboring towns proved to be fruitless… isn’t every small town supposed to have some dive of a bar, where all the townies hang out??? Apparently not…
Next day we checked out the luray caverns!!! Much like Wall Drug in SD there are signs EVERYWHERE for luray caverns. Interesting side note from the tour – some dude figured out how to play music on the stalactites (and yes I did have to look up the spelling on that) making it one of the largest instruments around. Our tour/admission included a car museum that was next door to the caverns which also turned out to be pretty interesting… amazing to think that my grandparents could have ridden in some of models…
Sadly, weekends come to end….booo going back to work….
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