Headed to Washington DC from Tennessee via the Skyline Drive through Virginia. Our first stop on the drive was at this quaint little cottage that belonged to Orelena Hawks Puckett who lived here in the latter part of her 102 years. She started midwifery in her 50's and delivered over 1,000 babies her last being in 1939. Ironically none of her own 24 children ever lived beyond infancy. When she started her practice in 1890 her fee was $1 and when times were good it was $6, sometimes she even took food or other goods in lieu of money. "Aunt" Orelena is remembered in this area for her witty, cheerful personality.
Onward we drove and came across another area that had a wonderful display of the types of fences that the early farmers in the area used and some are still using today
They also had an observation tower which we climbed and as you can see another very cloudy day in the mountains.
Needless to say after taking this drive we were both exhausted and decided to stop for the night in Roanoke only to find that there was no where to park the camper for the night other than in the County Inn & Suites parking lot. Alas this was the first night since we started that we didn't spend the night in the camper.
Made it to DC....found a nice campground and headed into the city the next morning. My first ever ride on a subway pretty interesting. Walked the entire city from Lincoln Memorial to the Capital Building. Here are some photos:
Exhausted and sunburned we headed back to camp to get ready for our trip to Massachusetts
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