Front Royal to Ohiopyle

After Shenandoah we drove North West leaving Virginia and pass briefly through West Virgina and Maryland on our way to Pennsylvania. Along the way we saw the Paw Paw tunnel - not super exciting but a kinda cool tunnel dug in the 1830s/1840s to reroute the Potomac River in Allegheny County, Maryland.

Ohiopyle is a little (very little) town on the Youghiogheny river in tucked into the Ohiopyle State Forest.  The town is a draw for white water rafting and cycling. It has a great little bakery and just happens to have a couple of amazing Frank Lloyd Wright houses nearby - Kentuck Knob (aka the Hagan House) and the Kaufmann House aka Fallingwater

 Crossing the Youghiogheny River (or the 'Yough')

 Cucumber Falls, Ohiopyle State Park

 

A couple of Andy Goldsworthy sculptures in the sculpture garden at Kentuck Knob

 

 'Room' 1992

'Floodstones Cairn' 1991-2003

Shenandoah National Park

Once again rainy weather obstructed some of our views, but Shenandoah managed to remain beautiful through the clouds and misty rain...

Wildlife count for the day was 4 White Tailed Deer, 3 Turkeys, 2 Gray Squirrels and one Bunny. We had bee hoping to see black bears, but alas, we saw none.

 Foggy

A little trail

Trees not quite springing yet...

Likin' Lichen

 There were occasional views to be had

This little stream was gushing

...featuring our trusty Chrysler 200

 

Charlottesville/Monticello

The weather turned a bit wet for our time in Charlottesville (or C-ville to the locals), but we still got to look at some decent architecture etc.

The University of Virginia was founded by Thomas Jefferson and 'The Lawn' was designed by him. It has two large wings of pavilions connected by a colonnaded walkway running down from the Rotunda - the original library.

Monticello was Jefferson's home, up on a hill just out of Charlottesville. The nice chap kept lots of slaves to do his gardening for him, and when the mood struck him some other 'duties'...

The main building (Jefferson's home)

The views were somewhat limited by the inclement weather.