Beautiful ride today, although a mile down the road, I had to stop and put my jacket on. Going downhill was cold. Haven’t worn a jacket since CO. But, it started getting hot about noon.

I had a four lane, divided highway almost all the way. It’s like I had my own lane. Sometimes, the four lanes went to three lanes with either a passing lane on one side or a turning lane in the middle. Still plenty of room for traffic to get around. What I didn’t understand was that most passing lanes were on the downhill side of traffic, not the uphill side. I thought that was really weird.

In Natural Bridge, there was one restaurant called the Pink Cadillac. It had hundreds of pictures of Elvis on the walls inside. The outside building was a bright pink.

My favorite tree in this part of the US is the Crepe Myrtle Tree. So beautiful. It has been blooming for over two weeks now. Finally, I was able to get a picture.

Today was the first day that the scenery really opened up. There were some big, beautiful grassy hills with farm houses and some horse fences. It was really hard to get a good shot, though.

I don’t know how everyone sees my pictures, but I found if I tap on them, they get bigger, and you see more. Maybe they are only partial pics on my phone. Would like to know what you see.

Climbed out of Staunton to the east to find my motel and those to whom I talked, (to make sure I was going the right way), said I had to climb this big hill and then it flattened out. Big hill, my foot. If that’s what I have to deal with tomorrow, it will be a piece of cake. Although, I know climbing over the Blue Ridge Mtns should be much steeper and longer. I’ll find out.