Virginia Beach to Emporia

Emporia, VA.
56 Deg. overcast, SW wind @ 4 mph.
Forecast today = high temp. 76 deg. partly cloudy, SW wind @ 10 to 15 mph.

By the time Jim and Linda got everything packed up, me off of those wooden blocks that my front tires were up on, pulled me out of the drive, hooked CLT to the back of me, and said final good-byes to Joe, (he had worked from home on the computer yesterday morning), it was almost exactly 10:00 when we pulled away from the house.

Oh, as Jim was moving CLT, he noticed an envelope under CLT's wiper blade that was addressed to Linda. Linda said that it was a very nice note from Nancy, saying how much she enjoyed our visit and telling Linda some other sweet things that I won't go into here.

Anyway, Thanks Nancy. We really enjoyed our visit with you too, and are looking forward to coming back again, just as soon as we can.

From Virginia Beach, we headed West on I-264 and then tuned off on I-64, took it around  the South side of the metro area and then picked up US 58 which brought us to Emporia. In Emporia, we tuned North on I-95, took it up to exit 17, and then came back South a little ways on US 301 to the Yogi Bear Jellystone Park.

It was Noon when we pulled up in front of the office, so it took us exactly 2 hours to travel 104 miles.

This is a nice park, but pretty expensive. The main reason for stopping here is that they have pull-thru, full hook-up sites that are reasonably level and easy to get into. Also, it's one of the very few camp grounds along our route to Apex, and the closest park to Joe and Nancy's.

As soon as Jim got me registered and pulled into my site, the first thing he did was to hook up the sewer hose and dump both of my tanks.

Whew!!! It was sure good to get rid of all of that stuff!!! :-)

Then, he hooked up the electric and water and came inside and leveled me.

Kind of backwards from what he normally does, but he wanted to dump the tanks while the solids were still suspended in the liquid.

As soon as he had the water and electric hooked up, Linda  started doing laundry. It was misting outside by this time, so anything that she wanted to hang up, she had to hang on my cabinet door handles or on the shower.

For dinner, Linda heated up some of those meat balls that she had made  the other day, and cooked some asparagus and rice to make a nice meal. After dinner, Jim fooled around with this computer, Linda dozed in her chair and they both watched TV until bedtime.

Today, we'll head over to Apex. Except for the traffic around the Raleigh area, it should be a fairly easy trip of about 130 miles. Once we get settled in, Jim will call Mike and Gina to find out what's going on, and then he'll be able to start making plans for next week.

Why does he want to make plans for next week, you ask? Well, if I understand it right, we may be getting some company, and he wants to try to figure out which day would be the best for the company to come to see me. :-)

Did you know that Emporia, VA is the home to MLB player Jamar Walton, NFL player Maurice Hicks, former WNBA Player Sharon Manning and NASCAR drivers Elliott Sadler and Hermie Sadler?