Day
1 Wednesday August 1, 2018 We departed home at 7:20AM on the
beginning of a 31 day trip. After stopping for fuel for the motorhome
and breakfast for us, we were on our way to Deer Creek RV Resort just
across the state line of Virginia near Galax. We stopped at the
Farmers Market in Greensboro to take a break, stretch our legs and
get some vegetables. Then we were on our way and arrived at 1:45PM as
a light rain came down. I had checked the Weather bug App on my
phone so I knew it was predicting rain at 2PM and I wanted to arrive
and setup before the rain.
We
got setup in site 64 just before the rain started. We stayed in the
same site last year. We are renting it from the owners. All the sites
in the resort are privately owned and a few owners rent out theirs
when they are not using them. The owners also own the vacant site
beside it and both are for sale.
It
rained off and on the remainder of the day so we relaxed and did some
reading.
Day
2 Thursday August 2, 2018 We woke to more rain. I checked the Yelp
App to see if the Fox's Cones and Coffee shop we visited several time
last year in Galax was open today only to see that it was listed as
permanently closed. We were very disappointed but decided to go to
town anyway for breakfast. We drove into town and discovered the
coffee shop was open but under a different name. It is now the Briar
Patch Marketplace and Cafe. The prior owner decided to quit the
business so the owner of the antique business that adjoins it
reopened it. We were glad.
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| Coffee Shop |
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| Yummy Cinnamon Bun |
After
leaving the coffee shop we picked up a local visitors guide and
visited the art school gift shop across the street. The local crafts
people had some really nice crafts on display. Then we returned to
the RV resort for the remainder of the day to eat, read and watch it
rain and rain and rain.
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| Old Bank Safe in Art School (formally a bank) |
The
couple that owns the site next to the one we are renting talked to us
when we got back to the resort. They were washing their motorhome. He
told us about some minor damage to their motorhome they received
Wednesday just before they got here. They have a scratch down one of
the storage doors near the rear of the motorhome. He said an 18
wheeler had forced him off the road and he bumped the guard rail. We
noticed Wednesday afternoon after they arrived, that he was pointing
at the storage door and was really animated and very agitated (MAD).
Day
3 Friday August 3, 2018 Well we woke to more rain. I sure wish this
rain would shift to California where they are having all the forest
fires. We had planned to go to the Tomato Festival in Independence VA
today but all this rain has put a damper on that. It continued to
rain until about 1PM when the sun finally came. Other than a couple
of small showers it was clear the remainder of the day so we set
outside under the little cabin porch and read and relaxed.
For
supper we drove about ½ mile to the Mt. Cafe for some seafood. We
can almost throw a rock to the VA/NC state line from the entrance to
the resort and the cafe is just a short distance over the line into
NC.
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| Site 64 |
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| Street in front of our site |
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| Site 64 |
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| Fishing pond at Resort |
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| View from Club House |
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| View from Club House |
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| View from Club House |
Day
4 Saturday August 4, 2018 Our first day of waking up with no rain.
We did a walk around the resort, had breakfast and I did some
maintenance on the motorhome water system. We drove into Galax to
check out the Rythem Brew and Vine Festival. There didn't appear to
be much to the festival to make us want to pay $10 entry fee, as we
didn't like the music and we don't drink beer so we went to the
Italian Garden restaurant for a pizza and then browsed/shopped in
some of the shops and antique stores. We made another stop at the
Briar Patch Coffee Shop. Late in the day we went over to the next
site and talked with Gary and Nancy for awhile and swapped stories
about our motorhome travels.
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| Downtown Galax VA |
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| Sunset at the Resort |
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5 Sunday August 5, 2018 No rain and the sun was shinning today so we
drove some of the back roads and made a loop through Independence VA
and on over to Sparta NC and came back along the Blue Ridge Parkway
and stopped at the Blue Ridge Music Center and listen to the music
jam they have on the breezeway from noon to 4PM.
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| Mural on Farm Bureau Building in Independence VA |
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| Musicians |
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| Banjo playing Ranger |
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