Day 3: The Long and Winding Road

Phew

Today was a VERY long day. Alie and I had to leave by 8:30am to get to Maryland for her appointment at Noon. Leaving that early allowed us to hit 0 traffic on the way down there. So we got there by 11am. Once we arrived we ate and she went to her appointment. While I read my book Bringing Out the Dead. So far its excellent but incredibly depressing, the author really enables you to see how his character sees the world. Yet that is neither here nor there. Around 2:00pm Alie got out of her meeting and we decided to head west towards Shenandoah National Park!

We arrived around 5pm and got out around 9:00pm. There are a bunch of trails and such but since we got into the park late we just drove through the 105 miles road called Skyline Drive. We stopped every now and again to take in the sights and take pictures. It was a little hot and hazey when we first got into the park so the views were not as amazing as they could be, but they were great nonetheless. We also saw TONS of deer in the park, which was very cool. They, like the buffalo in Yellowstone, were completely complacent with the vehicles and people driving around. Overall, it comes highly recommended, but by the time the road was finished so were we. Alie and I are more excited about the red rocks of the west or the incredibly tall peaks of the Rockies, but we figured it was just because we grew up with the green trees and pseudo mountains of the mid atlantic.

Now without further ado our current tallies...

We've now covered a whopping 15% of the country!
Wrong turns: 7 or so
(Note to self: The GPS sometimes recalculates slowly and will tell you when to turn as you are passing through the intersection.)
Today we travelled about 519 miles
in about 10h of moving time.
with 2h and 27m of stopping time.
A moving average of 56.7mph
and a total average speed of 45.5mph.
We used about a 1/2 a tank of gas.
All in a totaly amount of time of 12 1/2h
Distance left: We've only just begun
Next Stop: Hilton Head and Fort Sumpter!

Picture dump to follow soon. Stay tuned!