May 31 - Blue Ridge Parkway

The roads today took us up one side and down the other side of the Blue Ridge Parkway. We got to over 3,000' elevation and the road was narrow and windy.  Boone is a very pretty ski resort town, which would be spectacular in the winter.  Unfortunately there wasn’t anywhere for us to pull off and investigate on foot so we contented ourselves with driving through the guts of it anyway.  

Stayed in another dodgy campgpround – Carrollwood, near Galax, it rained as we arrived so we decided we would live with it.  Even though we felt ripped off at $35/night with minimal facilities, well those you would want to use - the toilets had shower curtains for doors!   Couldn’t even drive around the property due to the low slung cables which we couldn’t fit under!  So there was a bit of jiggery pokery to get onto our site for the night. Spent some of the evening working through the plan of attack for tomorrow…  Most of the highlights are not RV friendly and are only open Tuesday to Sunday with all the music happening at the weekends so we will be giving them a miss.