{"id":627,"date":"2015-11-15T20:48:04","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T01:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/?p=627"},"modified":"2015-11-15T20:48:04","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T01:48:04","slug":"day-54-blue-ridge-and-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/?p=627","title":{"rendered":"Day 54 – Blue Ridge and Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was the final day of my vacation. After leaving Roanoke (which I must visit again when I have more time) I simply headed north on the Blue Ridge Parkway until I reached its northern terminus. Although most of the trees were bare I very much enjoyed the drive and views. In some ways I prefer the Parkway over Skyline Drive as it seems more open and you can really appreciate that you are driving along the mountain ridge. The altitudes are less than Skyline and there are few trails (apart from the 2050 mile long Appalachian Trail which crosses the Parkway multiple times) but, because real life is happening either side of the Parkway, there seems to be more to see per mile. I think a trip of the full length of the Parkway when spring flowers are blooming or during fall colors is in my future.<\/p>\n

Once I reached the end of the Parkway I headed home. Since this part was almost all on interstate highways I decided to make the official end of the trip at the end of the parkway. At that point I had driven 11,075 miles since starting at the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. I will add a final post for this trip in a few days with some reflections and more statistics.<\/p>\n

The final video and map are here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here are another pair of photos taken at the same point, showing\u00a0 the ridge in Blue Ridge Parkway . This is looking east\"Blue<\/a>and west\"Blue<\/a><\/p>\n

And a couple of other pleasant scenes from overlooks.\"Blue<\/a> \"Blue<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today was the final day of my vacation. After leaving Roanoke (which I must visit again when I have more time) I simply headed north on the Blue Ridge Parkway until I reached its northern terminus. Although most of the trees were bare I very much enjoyed the drive and views. In some ways I … Continue reading Day 54 – Blue Ridge and Home<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,3],"tags":[9,54],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":635,"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions\/635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}