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Following Fall Through PA & VA
Pennsylvania We were very excited about our plans to stay at Moon Lake Recreation Area in Pennsylvania’s Pinchot State Forest. Moon Lake is free (permit required) and has miles and miles of mountain bike trails. There are 10 numbered campsites and a rig our size will only fit in numbers 1 and 7. Unfortunately, we had a few “dips” in full-time RV living this week. There was a lot of rain, in the forms of a nor’easter and a bomb cyclone, whatever the heck that is. A lot of rain is not fun when you are towing your 10,000lb house up and down dirt roads and it caused us to…
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Fall In The Northern Neck
By mid-September, we were starting to feel like locals. We had our preferred grocery store and could get there without using GPS. Even Michael was starting to be able to identify all the invasive plants because I pointed them out along the roadside everywhere we went. The weather was more enjoyable and there was an explosion of yellow with all the Tickseed, Crownbeard, and Golden Rod blooming. On the Refuge, my main tasks were new ones – mowing (not just mowing, but also driving the mower around) and water sealing a massive amount of woodwork at the most visited tract with John and Ivy. Lauren and I also started doing…
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Summer In The Northern Neck
Yeah, we had never heard of it either. However, this peninsula, bordered by the Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers in northeastern VA is a great example of the kinds of new places that we hope to get to know during our US travels. We arrived at the beginning of August and were welcomed by Hurricane Isaias. Thank you, 2020, for continuing to induce anxiety about our decision to live in a structure not secured to the ground. Our NOAA weather radio (I knew we would need one of those) waking and alerting us that we needed to seek shelter from a tornado in the area. Our home…
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Virginia Is For Lovers
The ad agency that created Virginia’s iconic tourism slogan claims its origin is that regardless of what you love – mountains, beaches, history – there is somewhere for you to visit in the state. I also like the theory that the slogan references a landmark civil rights case, Loving v Virginia, that legalized interracial marriage in the Commonwealth shortly before the slogan first appeared. We happen to love Virginia State Parks, at least compared to NC State Parks, which is our current frame of reference. Our absolute favorite is Grayson Highlands in the Virginia Blue Ridge where we have camped and hiked multiple times. On our way to the NWR…
