Day 59 – Lexington, VA to Asheville, NC
We’ve spent longer here in Lexington that anyplace else on this trip, and we’ve really enjoyed it here. But the Captain, with consent of the crew (that includes me) has decided to move on. Apparently there’s a big house in Asheville that Geri and Don want to tour, which I assume leaves me out of the action, but I know I’ll find something interesting there. Before we left, Don took me out for my morning walk, and I decided to explore more of our walking area than I had before. Several squirrels needed chasing, and I discovered that I could make a real storm of dead leaves just by kicking them up with all four paws. That was really fun! Have to try it again sometime. When we got back to the rig, Geri was over talking to some new neighbors who had just moved in last night. Don and I went over to join them and their dogs, a nice brown lady dog and a white workaholic standard poodle. This dog couldn’t stand still for a minute, particularly when his human (male) was throwing a Frisbee. He was literally working himself into a lather. I’ll have to admit, he was very good at catching the Frisbee. But I noticed that he didn’t get any cookies for doing good catches. Pretty dumb on his part, I’d say. They were from Canada, and were spending a month just visiting Virginia. We agreed they were pretty smart travelers.
We finally got rolling just before noon, and headed down Highway 81 toward Tennessee. There was a lot of confusion over which road to take down to Asheville, because the road that led there had different numbers on different maps. We stopped at a Tennessee Visitor Center, and found out that one of our maps was really out of date. We got on the right highway, which went across some beautiful mountains, and headed down into Asheville. After we found our RV Park and got moved in, Geri and I went for a walk down to their dog run. We looked across the valley, and there was the house that they want to visit! It’s really big! Geri says it’s the biggest house in the country! It used to belong to some people called Vanderbilt. I hope they can see everything they want to see in just a day. We had some black beans and rice with sausage (good!), watched a little TV, and went to bed.