Shenandoah Valley and Heading Home

After leaving the KOA near Lexington, Virginia we headed up the valley on I-81 to do some sightseeing. Our first stop was the Frontier Culture Museum. The concept behind this place is to show the lives of the early pioneers from Europe & Africa before and after their arrival in America. Farm homes, their furnishings and buildings in England [dated 1690], Ireland [early1700s], and Germany [early1700s] were taken apart, shipped to the museum site and reassembled. People in period costume were cooking and doing their chores in the manner back before life overseas before immigration to America. The last stop demonstrated an example of early American pioneer homesteading in Northern Virginia starting about 1780 to 1840 and the changes during that period. Three pioneer homes show the homes, furnishings and buildings.
We then booked into an RV site called Cosy Acres close to the Luray Caverns in the middle of the Shenandoah Valley. Next morning we toured the Luray Caverns, an amazing experience walking 1.25 miles underground through stalactites and stalagmite pillars which took millions of years to develop. Next door to the caverns was an old car and carriage museum, numerous extremely well preserved vehicles starting in 1903.
We managed to finish this tour before heading north towards home making our way to the I-95 bypassing Boston and sleeping two nights at rest stops in New Hampshire and Maine.
We stopped in Fredericton for a Monday night stay with Paul’s brother Joe. Some time during the night Julie returned from her trip to Las Vegas and gave us a good breakfast. Tuesday night we stayed with friends George and Donna in Onslow Mt. outside Truro. We were happy to also see their son, Robbie, his wife Janet, and their baby daughter Georgia. We had a great evening looking at their western trip photos, DVDs on Janet & Robbie’s hike, and ended with cowboy/retired farmer George singing & playing guitar.
After a delicious breakfast, Wednesday took us to Dartmouth to see Joanne & Charlie and our handsome dark haired grandson, Ben who loves to roughhouse with Grampie Paul. He’ll be two on May 30th and a real joy. Our redheaded grandson in Whitehorse just turned three and we just received the birthday pictures. He loves guitar music and his cake looked like a guitar. We look forward to the summer when all our family will be together on PEI.

Later…..