Day 25 - 8/6 - Waynesboro, VA

Yesterday as we completed the Blue Ridge Parkway we continued a short way up Skyline Drive, expecting to begin riding it in earnest this morning. Unfortunately we once again awoke to a driving rain and quickly concluded that riding was not what we wanted to do.

Having driven through Waynesboro the day before, it seemed to offer little in the way of rainy-day activities so in the morning mom & dad headed to Walmart for a little shopping and in the afternoon Vicki and I headed to Thomas Jefferson's Monticello http://www.monticello.org/ in nearby Charlottesville for a little sightseeing.

The Thomas Jefferson Foundation has done a really nice job of preserving the estate and the guided tours provide a good balance of entertainment and education. Having forgotten my camera, you will all be spared any photos of our visit (much to Vicki's delight) but their website is well done and worth a visit if you can't come for the real thing.

The one and only picture of the day is from a quick drive-by of the TNT Cafe, our choice for dinner last night. When I travel, my preference is always to try local restaurants, so at the recommendation of a fellow traveler we visited the TNT in the local strip mall.

Walking in we quickly noticed we were the only customers and this certainly is not where you would go for a fancy meal. Linda, our waitress, cook, cashier, and entertainment however was only too happy to help. Twice Linda had to run next door to the local grocery for ingredients to complete our simple (but good) dinners.

Tomorrow we head to Front Royal, VA where Vicki and I will leave my parents for a couple of days to visit Vicki's sister Jeannie and her husband Dennis in Catlett, VA.

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