What a long day!

Poor chickens on their last ride to your table!

May 16 – Boy did I sleep good last night!  We were on the road at 8:30 and had a nice clear day for driving. We got off I-95 only 6 miles up the road and took some 2 lanes no stress roads NW until we got on US 29 which was 4 lane all the way to I-64, then we were 40 minutes or so away from Sherando Lake.  We did get in a couple of pickles with the RV but managed to get out without any problems.

Scenic road today

We stopped on the road into Sherando and unhitched the car.  I parked the RV while we drove up to scope out the sites.  There were only 3 and one was way too small or us or the Gorskis.  We took the shorter of the 2 remaining and stopped and asked our friend, Fred, to help get us in.  We volunteered with him and his wife Linda last time we were here.  He got us in perfectly!  Not much space for the car but we’ll manage.  It was pretty chilly out and Linda was wearing gloves and a sweatshirt over a shirt and said how cold it had been.  Hope it warms a bit but not like at home!

 

We met our one set of neighbors.  Didn’t get much set up outside as we were tired and hungry.  I really enjoyed a bowl of my clam chowder from Tony’s and Bill happily consumed the leftover chicken and dumplings.  We had to have some veggies so made small salads.  

 

We got a few things set up for the 6 weeks, but no TV.  We were pleasantly surprised that we each had 1-2 bars on the phone and sporadically can get and make calls and texts.  That will be really nice!  I took advantage by calling Directv to come out Wednesday and see if they can get us with a signal on the mobile dish.  I may give it a try myself tomorrow and cancel if I have success.  We are among the trees but most of the volunteers a dish or a dome so there’s hope for us.