Sunday? Day 4?

Is it a sign of a good vacation or bad memory that it's already hard for me to keep track of the days? Either way, it's a good reason to keep a record of my travels.
I got up and at it yesterday. I was staying outside of Shenandoah which meant that it was going to take me a good 45 minutes just to get to the park. I got there and started driving down Skyline Drive. Cuyahoga had been a long valley with a canal running down it, Shenandoah is a Lon mountain with a road running down it. There's many overlooks on the side of the rode and trails leading to overlooks, summits, streams and falls. I was about to go down a trail to the Deep Hollow Falls when I got some words of advice from another hiker. She told me that there was a fire road a mile back that led to the falls and was an easier hike and she told me to stop at the visitor center for directions. I had to go there anyway to get my passport stamp, so I did both. One of the stamps,was for the Appalachian Trail and I asked the ranger if I was really on the trail. She said she was anal that way too and didn't get stamps she hadn't actually been to. She told me ten miles back was a nice trail, that was actually part of the AT. She loved it because at the summit you could look down and see vultures soaring. I had to see that. That trail was Stony Man summit. I then did the fire road to the falls. I decided that was enough hiking for the day and did the rest of the Skyline Drive by car. It's a long drive! When I finished it I took a bit of a wrong turn unto the Blur Ridge Parkway. No worries though, when I stopped at the visitor station for directions, I got another stamp. The park service oversees the parkway.
I then drove to Richmond for the night.
Plans for today.... Richmond botanical center, biking on the Virginia Capital Trail and the beach!

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