A travel day today. We decided to push on and make some miles which would allow us more time in
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| Route 95 North in North Carolina |
one spot. The spot we picked was Fredericksburg, Virginia. We traveled over 500 miles and had an almost completely uneventful ride up Route 95. There was one memorable event, but I have been banned from mentioning it. . . and we will leave it at that. Traffic was kind to us and there seemed to be fewer idiots on the
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| Patriotic Water Tower |
road than usual. We chatted a lot and listened to a very funny book that we had downloaded, "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime", by Mark Haddon. The reader really brings this book to life, and more than a few times we were laughing so hard we could hardly catch our breath. A very curious incident indeed. We watched the price of gas go up and down depending on where we were. I filled up last night for $1.95 a gallon here in Virginia. Around two in the afternoon we
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| Museum sign |
stopped in Roanoke Rapids and visited an historic spot where a
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| Path along the old canal |
lock was built on the old canal. We selected this spot expecting both a canal and rapids, but it offered neither. We did have our lunch on the picnic tables and scouted the area finding Sweetgum trees and a path down along where the canal used to be. There was an old building here as well and we hung out here for a while just to get the blood circulating once again. This was also a stop along the Underground Railway for escaped slaves heading north. Back on the road we made good time. The sunset happened as we were heading through Richmond and we arrived in Fredericksburg well after dark, got checked in to another
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| Underground Railroad |
hotel and found supper at 'Cowboy Jacks', the restaurant next door. Being Wednesday, the had a special of a $2 half pound burger, how could I pass that up. We had missed happy hour, but then again any hour in a local bar with $2 burgers is a happy hour.
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| At Cowboy Jacks |
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