You can also visit http://www.precisionrv.com/ We left Asheville NC traveling once again on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
It is interesting to note that the Blue Ridge Mountains (part of the Appalachians) is older than the Alps. We just missed the riot of rhododendron and azalea blooms and other spring flowers that were covering the hillsides only a couple of weeks ago.
The best time to travel the Blue Ridge is early to mid June for flowers and in the falls for the turning of the leaves. We stopped at the Linn Cove Viaduct visitor’s center and took a short trail to look up underneath the viaduct, an engineering marvel to avoid cutting into the mountain.
We stopped at a visitor center and took a 1 mile hike to a view of the falls. Along the ways we came across a snake having a salamander for lunch.
We looked forward to visiting the Blue Ridge Music Center north of Cumberland Knob. Unfortunately they had just moved all the exhibits out as construction for the new exhibit was to start the day we were there. They do have live music every day during the summer season.
The next big stop was at the famous Mabry Mill,
formerly run by E.B. Magry and his wife Lizzie from 1910 - 1935. There is the old gristmill, sawmill, blacksmith ship,old still for Moonshine 
and other exhibits. Old time skills are demonstrated on the week-ends. We purchased some fresh ground corn and followed Lizzie’s recipe for corn muffins, except that we didn’t have any lard with us.
North of Roanoke Mountain we took off to the northeast toward Lynchburg Virginia. We are currently at the Lynchburg Thousand Trails Park near Gladys VA. It is a huge park and would be wonderful if it were maintained. They are having a lot of water and sewer problems. The ranger said the winter was the most severe in 25 years with 2 months of sub-zero weather. The evidence of high winds is evident as there are broken trees as thought a hurricane came through. The weather is a bit milder here with less humidity so we enjoy our evening walks dodging frogs who scream at one another, and the largest fire-flies that we’ve seen so far. We are caught up on busy work so are ready to head out for some exploring tomorrow.
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