Over 5740 feet of climbing, we climbed up about 4 miles of one of the steepest stretches so far to top the Blue Ridge parkway.
The climb started in Vesuvius, VA and ended on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
We were on the parkway for the northern 27 miles, when it turned to skyline drive is where we changed course. Skip's friend George road with us and navigated us through Lexington, VA and he started back once atop the Blue Ridge. The day was nice and we had some nice views form the parkway.
Luckily, it as Monday and there wasn't too much traffic, mostly RV and motorcycles and some cars here and there.
This seemed to be the last real day of climbing on the trip, hopefully it'll be relatively flat and low rolling hills until the coast. We went about 8 miles farther than we had planned, but the plan is to now shorten the last day so that the last day will be less than 80 miles.
The famous "Cookie Lady" was not home, she is now in a wheel chair and cannot move around much, hopefully she will recover soon!
The climb started in Vesuvius, VA and ended on the Blue Ridge Parkway. 
We were on the parkway for the northern 27 miles, when it turned to skyline drive is where we changed course. Skip's friend George road with us and navigated us through Lexington, VA and he started back once atop the Blue Ridge. The day was nice and we had some nice views form the parkway.
Luckily, it as Monday and there wasn't too much traffic, mostly RV and motorcycles and some cars here and there. 
This seemed to be the last real day of climbing on the trip, hopefully it'll be relatively flat and low rolling hills until the coast. We went about 8 miles farther than we had planned, but the plan is to now shorten the last day so that the last day will be less than 80 miles.
The famous "Cookie Lady" was not home, she is now in a wheel chair and cannot move around much, hopefully she will recover soon!
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