{"id":802,"date":"2012-10-03T07:37:22","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T11:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=802"},"modified":"2012-10-03T07:37:22","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T11:37:22","slug":"luray-va-and-the-shenandoah-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/03\/luray-va-and-the-shenandoah-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Luray, VA, and the Shenandoah National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

The plan for our 2-night stay in Luray, VA, was to take a leisurely road trip along Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park<\/a> and, possibly, take in the famous Luray Caverns<\/a>. But I learned that Jett is not a spelunker (her response when asked if she would like to tour the caverns was “No freaking way!”). As for Skyline Drive, the rain interfered. I went alone while Jett was napping, driving through rain and fog and thinking that this was probably going to be a huge waste of time and fuel. The park rangers at the entrance (whom I could barely see through the thick fog and mist) were not encouraging. They said that I would probably be in fog for the entire 34-mile segment that I was driving.<\/p>\n

But I got lucky.\u00a0 Though fog enveloped me much of the time, there were enough sunny breaks to make it worthwhile. I got some dramatic photos.<\/p>\n

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Shenandoah NP, looking SW<\/p><\/div>\n

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Shenandoah NP, roadside flora<\/p><\/div>\n

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Shenandoah NP, looking SW<\/p><\/div>\n

I also cashed in on my advanced age and got the $10 card that gives me lifetime entry into any national park. That will save a couple of bucks when we get to the Grand Canyon. It’s great to be old.<\/p>\n

Yeah.<\/p>\n

Our home on this hop has been The Country Waye<\/a>, our first KOA campground. I got the Good Sam discount, but it was still pricey: $48.51 per night. But very nice. It has beautiful landscaping and many level gravel pull-thru sites. Every site has a picnic table and firepit and – this really catapulted it to the top of the dogs’ list of favorite places – a huge fenced-in dog run. Grace, when let off the leash, set a new land speed record for canines as she raced from one end to the other. I think she would have done well at Wonderland, if she could keep up that pace for a quarter mile.<\/p>\n

Being a Wisconsin boy, I also appreciated the herd of dairy cows next door. Jett was less enthusiastic about the bovine odor.<\/p>\n

Next up: a 210-mile jaunt to the southwest tip of Virginia, then on to Knoxville for RV repairs.<\/p>\n

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Settled in at The Country Waye<\/p><\/div>\n

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The cows, heading to the barn for milking<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The plan for our 2-night stay in Luray, VA, was to take a leisurely road trip along Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park and, possibly, take in the famous Luray Caverns. But I learned that Jett is not a spelunker (her response when asked if she would like to tour the caverns was “No freaking … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,4,5,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gtw","category-places","category-rvparks","category-places-va"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-cW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":816,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions\/816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}