As I write this, the rain is falling steadily on the motor home and it's making me very sleepy. We left our overnite site at Hico, West Virginia, with the forecast of rain today. The sun never did come out and there were showers throughout the day. The morning road started like this and the day ended with us entering Washington, D.C. on 6 lane interstate highway.
West Virginia feels very hilly and rural. The forest was mostly oak with a very clean floor. Further east the forest floor is covered with rhododendron of some variety that was not yet blooming.
Virginia on the other hand seems clean and agricultural. The Shenandoah Valley is beautiful.
We stopped for lunch in a rest area that had a beautiful view of the valley. Today we decided not to stop at any of the many historic Civil War sites along the freeway. It was cool, cloudy and raining periodically. Instead, we listened to our book on CD and just took in the scenery. We finished two books on CD this trip across the U.S.
We love listening to a book and watching the view change in our windshield. Along I-66 the cut banks were filled with forsythia and plantings of daffodils.
The daffodil are planted in big arrays about a mile apart or at the interchanges.
Tonight we are safely in our camp site for the next two weeks. Can you believe $8 a night for a site one mile from the metro to downtown Washington D.C. The campground hosts are from Eugene, Oregon, and we met a couple from Germany who shipped their RV over here on a container ship and have been touring the U.S. for the last 4 1/2 weeks. They were here in November and left to go back to Germany. Then they returned and drove from Yuma, Arizona, across he U.S. and tomorrow will load their RV on a ship in Baltimore and then fly home the next day. Tomorrow we begin to explore. Rain is predicted for the next two days, but then sunshine and temperatures in the 70's are coming up.
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