It’s a gray morning, but a great day to drive home, which is now in range.
Just a few miles up Skyline Drive, I slow down as I approach the Big Meadows area. According to the website yesterday, the Visitor Center here is supposed to be closed. But I see a few cars, so I pull in and park. Passport in hand I walk to the front door and am pleasantly surprised to find the Harry F. Byrd Visitor Center open. I have a nice chat with the rangers inside. One of them is going to Grand Canyon next month. So as my final tourist activity of the trip I stamp our passport and, as two new tourists start asking questions, I am out the door.
The Northern District is a more challenging road. I’ll guess it gets more traffic and visitors since the road is rougher—more potholes and patches. It also seems more aggressive with the turns and grades than it was down at the south end. I encounter a few more cars than yesterday. The day continues cloudy, so I skip picture taking at the overlooks. I just meander the curves and hills until I am out of the north end of the Park in Front Royal, Virginia. Soon I am back on I-81 and home is definitely where I’ll be by tonight.
6,575 miles in DD, plus side trips in Essie…it’s been a great trip. Thanks for tuning in.
The Home Stretch
About Us
- Dean and Diane
- East Stroudsburg, PA
- So we bought a motorhome a few years ago, and we couldn’t have been luckier to have found one that served all our needs so perfectly. We’ve now put 40,000 miles on her since purchase at 13,000, but our travels had always been limited by a need to return home for work, family, and the other mundane requirements of life. But then Diane retired, the children are doing well on their own, the house is well cared for, and daughter Meredith has assumed care of Diane’s mother. We are free at last! And if we don’t do it now, when? Our motorhome has a name. It’s from the “D”s in our names and follows from “The Double D Ranch,” what we call our permanent place in Northeast Pennsylvania. We could have spelled it “Didi” or “DeeDee,” it just seemed simpler to spell it “DD.” We have a long history of giving names to every vehicle we have ever owned. I guess we should mention that the car we tow (our “toad”) is named Essie. She’s a Saturn SC-2. Get it? So, we’re a little goofy, but we are blessed with an enduring love, a powerful partnership, two wonderful children, two grandchildren, and six wheels under our feet. The adventure begins!
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