Michael and Savannah on the move....

Michael and I were on vacation at the beginning of September, as part of our annual anniversary trip. Of course, true to my usual form with the photo uploader, I've got these pictures out of order, and I can't seem to correct it. However, here's a little pictorial.What's missing (and will appear in another post later) is our stop at my Mom and Dad's and pictures of the Greenbrier, which we visited our first day in Lewisburg, West Virginia. We took a bunker tour, and walked through rooms oppulently (if eccentrically) deocrated by Dorothy Draper (I have bathroom pictures on my phone, which will appear here soon...I know, you're thinking, "Pictures of the bathroom, girl? Are you kidding?" Hey, this isn't just any bathroom. Each stall was a luxury suite on par with, if not slightly above, the bathrooms at Harrod's in London). But more on this later....in the meantime....pics, pics, pics

Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home, in Charlotteville, Virginia.
It was our first stop on our way to vacation....

Oooo! Now we're suddently in Greenbank, WV. Depicted here is the the 2-acre
wide sattelite at the National Radio Observatory (NRO).
This was as close as we were permitted to get with the digital camera. In
the so-called "Quiet Zone" around the NRO any digital signal is
banned so that it does not interfere with their search for and investigations
of space frequencies.

Michael at Droop Mountain,standing with one hand on the 14th
Pennsylvania Cavalry sign.



Droop Mountain's Overlook Tower



Us in the Droop Mountain Tower.



Look! We're back in Charlottesville again.
(%^#@& pic uploader. Why you no work?)
 Michael at Monticello in front of a huge tulip
tree that they removed to protect the house from
damage.



Me in front of the fish pond at Monticello. This is where
they put the fish caught elsewhere that would eventually
end up on the Monticello table.

The gorgeous gardens at Monticello

Michael in front of more of the beautiful Monticello gardens!

Okay, now we're in Cass, West Virginia, where we got on
Shay Engine #6 and rode to Bald Knob with a stop at Whittaker Station.

Michael and me on the open train car.



The beautiful landscape we traveled through. We were out from about 12-5.



The Cass Company Store station. Logging once kept Cass a going concern
until the late 60s/early 70s.

Michael at the Bald Knob overlook tower. The view was
pretty amazing, and we could see the NRO sattelite from
there, even though it was 4 miles away.