On The Road Again

Campsite at Midford, VA

Beautiful Holly Tree beside of our site

Field of Robins

January 18th - Tuesday - 29 degrees

We are “on the road again”.  Our first stop last night didn't have internet; therefore, was unable to do a post.  

We left home on the 17th with a light dusting of snow.  We drove to Dillsburg, where Janet, Lou’s daughter met us with lunch.  We took time to enjoy the lovely meal that she brought to us and engaged in conversation with her and we were off on our journey.  It was an overcast day and a good day to travel.  We had planned on staying at Quantico for the evening and then going through the Marine Museum the next day; however, when I called, I found from the message on the phone the Fam Camp was closed, so we traveled on to Midford, VA for the night.  

We stayed at R&D Family Campground.  It was a lovely campground with all of the hookups that we needed to get rid of all of our winterizations and replenish our fresh water supply.  They even had heat tapes on their fresh water.  

While Lou got everything hooked up I got our dinner ready.  I had fixed home made Lasagna for dinner the night before, as Susie and Tim had dinner with us and there was enough left over to bring along with us and I made a salad to go with it and some Texas toast, a glass of wine and dinner was ready.  

We were fortunate to secure a pull through camp site, so we didn't have to unhook, this pleased me, as I won’t be a lot of help to Lou this year, with my recent shoulder surgery.  I had just started working with weights and bands and we think I over did, so am back to doing just stretching.  My PT tech suggested that I use a bed pillow under my arm while riding and that had been a great help.

Today we slept in until 8:30 and then had a breakfast of homemade berry pancakes and sausage and were on the road by 11:00 am.  Just as we pulled out of the camp ground we saw a field of Robins.  That was a very welcome sight.  It was 32 degrees at 11:00,  but warmer that it was in PA as they had 20 degrees and two inches of snow.

We traveled route 95 to the Flying J for gas, which we purchased for $2.99 a gallon and when you are buying 70 gallons that was a nice surprise.

We took route 295  and route 95 through Virginia, across the James River, which was high once again.  Saw the many horse farms and Black Angus cattle.  Many state police were out and stopping cars, we witnessed many yesterday also.  Traffic was much heavier yesterday.

We ate our lunch at the Welcome Center in North Carolina and the temperature was 38 degrees.  After lunch, we put in an audio book by Stuart Woods, called Son of Stone, and we are enjoying that very much.  The afternoon just whizzed by.  We are staying at South of the Border in South Carolina tonight and plan on going into Savannah tomorrow and staying on base there for several days.