I do love mountains! Back to the Blue Ridge Parkway today, starting with Grandfather Mountain. Sufferers from vertigo: look away now - there is a footbridge suspended over a ravine, and it's a mile above sea level. And yes, of course I walked across it! It does sway slightly, but if you keep moving you'd never notice. The picture shows the shadow of the bridge on the side of the ravine (you can see the bridge itself on the website). The views all around are just wonderful, and the weather was again perfect, absolutely crystal clear, with not a cloud in sight, and really warm - no sweaters today. It seemed
that hardly anyone else was going north, so I mostly had the road and the views to myself all the way up to Virginia. The road is not quite as dramatic as the southern end, but the fall foliage is just about perfect right now.
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urned off the Parkway at Fancy Gap, to drive back south-east and again into North Carolina, past Mount Airy and Pilot Mountain down to Winston-Salem, a major centre of the tobacco industry, then back on the I-40 to Duke Medical Center at Durham, where Martha Adams gave me a tour of her department before we headed back to her house in Raleigh for a delicious supper and to admire her hammered dulcimer and her husband Richard's beautifully restored tractors.
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