Hillsville, Virginia 9-13

Today we took our time heading out. It poured all night and was raining hard all morning. We left around 10:30 and headed north on the Blue Ridge Parkway for about 10 miles until we hit a highway off of it that took us out of the fog. It was foggy today and raining and slow. We headed NE towards Pilot Mountain, there was a State Park we wanted to check out. It took us forever to find it and then it didn’t work for us at all. Then we headed north to Mount Airy, the birthplace of Andy Griffith and the setting for Mayberry. It was very large and it was raining like crazy so we by-passed going through the historic downtown area. It would have been really hard to see anything without parking and we didn’t want to walk in the deluge.

We found a place to pull out on the outskirts of Mount Airy to pick a spot to spend the night. Nothing where we were and not much in the north part of North Carolina so we headed north on up into Virginia. We went to a Passport America park NE of Hillsville, VA. It was pricey, $19.50, full hook-ups and kind of a pain to get to. The last turn to the road this place is on was a very sharp right and the trailer had to really tilt…sloshed some water out of the toilet on that one! Pouring rain while we were setting up of course, so we are feeling tired and soggy. We went about 157 miles today and 119 yesterday.

Now that we have zigged and zagged around down here we are going to point ourselves east to the ocean! There aren’t supposed to be any hurricanes the next week or so, so we should be good to go. Our plan is to drive Highway 12 along the outer banks…that long spit of land that looks like it is waaayyyy out in the ocean. We’ll have to ferry the rig in a couple of places. Should be fun, pray for great weather!!!!