If there’s one thing I could wish for my inevitable old age, it’s that we never stop walking. A family friend in Kharkov has parents who are now in their mid ’90s, and they leave the house at 8am every single day to walk around a local park until 11am. I want to be just […]
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Skyline Drive
This past fall, we drove over to Skyline Drive in Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park. We went more or less on a whim, and arrived too late to drive the entire length of it. Yet we definitely got our money’s worth of beautiful autumn foliage. On our way in, the ranger on duty warned us that […]
Apple House in Linden, VA
Coming up, I’ll be posting some pictures of a trip Joe and I took to Skyline Drive this past fall, but before doing that, I wanted to briefly mention this place called Apple House that we stumbled across by accident. We were getting gas before entering Skyline Drive, having made a completely random turn off […]
VDOT Workers’ Memorial
We stumbled across a gorgeous overlook, which happens to be the VDOT Workers’ Memorial. What a pretty place, that Virginia.
Jefferson Pools
On the way back from the Homestead, we stopped by the very reason the Homestead was founded where it was. The Jefferson Pools are a local attraction, and a real treat in winter. The hot spring that feeds the baths keeps the water at a cozy 98 degrees Fahrenheit year-round, a little sulfuric natural phenomenon […]
The Homestead Spa and Resort in Bath County, Virginia: A winter hike
Ah, and we’re back to the not-so-regularly scheduled updates! I can’t believe I still have Homestead pictures to put up, but you know how it goes. We participated in a few extracurricular activities during our stay. Joe took me on an early-evening snowmobile ride after the ski slopes closed, and also on a surprisingly terrifying […]
The Homestead Spa and Resort in Bath County, Virginia: The Lounges
The Homestead is a rather sprawling building, which has more lounges than M*A*S*H had seasons (both things are definitely for an older crowd, see what I did there?). The lounges are absolutely beautiful, but I must say that Joe and I never ended up… lounging in any of them. It was just a little overwhelming […]
The Homestead Spa and Resort in Bath County, Virginia: The Building
So… this post is about something that happened over six months ago. At the time, I posted about it very briefly, and never went back to edit the pictures and fully recap our 4th anniversary trip to The Homestead Spa and Resort in Bath County, VA. The next few posts will catch everyone up, I […]