I'm finally back in the region I left just over a week ago. Tonight we made it to Radford, and we got picked up by some family for food and a place to sleep. We continued traveling through the valley we were in yesterday, climbing out of it at the end of the day (the ridge outside of Christiansburg is quite a hill). There was a pretty awesome railroad bridge spanning the valley near Ellett, Va (concrete, but elegant). 54 miles for the day, and with my dad's legs feeling better, we got some good time for the day. It should take us around 2 days to get near Emory, and some alumns that graduated with my dad have offered their house in Abingdon as a crash spot. I may still hang out with Emory folk from my era (possibly/hopefully sleeping there). Ran into one guy who had started at the US border by the pacific and who is headed up to Maine. Pretty cool guy and plenty eccentric. We had some more heat and sun today, and that has me worn out.
Btw, it's been absolutely gorgeous going through the valleys (and even on some of the climbs).
:^D
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