{"id":3489,"date":"2022-03-10T21:15:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T02:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/?p=3489"},"modified":"2022-03-10T21:50:31","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T02:50:31","slug":"finally-back-on-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/?p=3489","title":{"rendered":"Finally Back on the Road"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday, March 10, 2022<\/h3>\n

Map and video of today’s route<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I am so happy to be, finally, heading off on my first significant road trip since Australia in 2019. I was just about to leave on my spring trip in March 2020 when I suffered a stroke that landed me in the hospital for three weeks just as covid hit the U.S.\u00a0 I am long recovered from the stroke but only now have covid levels subsided sufficiently to allow many indoor tourist facilities to re-open and for me to feel confident about visiting them.<\/p>\n

The target of this trip is San Francisco where I will be sharing a house with a couple of wonderful friends who will fly out from DC to join me. We will be enjoying several days over Spring Break eating, drinking, walking and sightseeing guided by two other great friends who retired to San Francisco from DC a few years back.<\/p>\n

Today’s 254 mile drive was from home to Roanoke, VA incorporating the northern section of Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park. The only tourist activity was a hike from Skyline Drive up to Compton Peak which was a pleasant climb along the Appalachian Trail and cleared the city air from my lungs. As is usually the case in Shenandoah the air was not clear and the view from the peak was pretty hazy but I didn’t care.<\/p>\n

\"View<\/p>\n

The start of the trip may be a little challenging as I was hoping to make a fairly quick dash to Dallas, TX before starting my real sightseeing but there is a cold front moving across the country that is predicted to bring snow to the area that I will be in on Saturday. Today, however was pleasant with hazy sunshine for much of the day and felt very good.<\/p>\n

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