Vacation

After a lot more driving yesterday afternoon we got back to Virginia, and this morning headed to Harpers Ferry (back in West Virginia!); there’s very little parking so we were encouraged to park at the nearby visitor center and take the (quick) shuttle bus.

The town is a mix of history and historic buildings, and tourist trap stores! It also has the Appalachian Trail running through it and crossing an old rail bridge – so we can claim to have “walked the Appalachian Trail in two states” since the river crossing is also the state line!

We also walked up a challengingly steep hillside to Jefferson Rock which is supposed to give good views but not really worth the climb!

From Grandview we drove a surprisingly long way to get to Sandstone Falls; to reach it from the visitor center requires a winding drive along the river for quite a way (with a couple viewpoints to see the falls), then crossing a bridge and driving back up the other side of the river to finally reach the falls parking – but worth it!

We saw a family of deer there too!

Grandview isn’t much like Goosenecks (in Utah) that we visited years ago – there’s a lot more trees for one, but it is still an impressive river meander curve that was worth driving to!