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| 49 years later! |
Our fall trip was to western Virginia. We left Friday (10/10) and arrived back home yesterday (10/18).
En route we visited with long-time friends in Lexington, VA. (DH and our host spent the summer in Germany in 1959!) We stopped at Natural Bridge (http://www.naturalbridgeva.com/).
The Elderhostel, "Virginia Sampler," was at the 4-H Center at Smith Mountain Lake. (www.ext.vt.edu/resources/4h/smithmt) The week's topics were Booker T. Washington (www.nps.gov/archive/bowa/home/htm) ; the Appalachian Trail; Thomas Jefferson and his country retreat Poplar Forest (http://www.poplarforest.org/); and the National D-Day Memorial (http://www.dday.org/). The presenters were excellent. Lectures were followed by field trips.
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| Natural Bridge |
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| Appalachian Trail expert Leonard Adkins |
It was a small (15) but congenial group from CA, IA, KY, VA, PA, TN, NY, and IL/WI (us!). One of the participants had been in our EH group at Apache Lake, AZ, in 2006. (How often does that happen?!)
This was DH's 22nd and my 21st EH. We're trying to decide where our next adventure will take us!
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| Beautiful autumn scenery! |