{"id":20024,"date":"2023-03-26T01:02:42","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T07:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=20024"},"modified":"2023-03-18T10:42:51","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T16:42:51","slug":"travelling-the-50-states-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/travelling-the-50-states-virginia\/","title":{"rendered":"Travelling The 50 States \u2013 Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Over my 48 years, I\u2019ve done my fair share of travelling across these United States.\u00a0 I thought it would be an interesting experiment go look back at those trips to each of the 31 states I have visited (62% isn\u2019t bad, is it?) and see if, and when, I may be returning.\u00a0 Working in alphabetical order, we continue today with the 10th state to be added to the Union: Virginia.<\/p>\n

State:<\/strong> Virginia
\nJoined the Union:<\/strong> 1788
\nVisits:<\/strong> 2<\/p>\n

Over the years, I\u2019ve two trips to Old Dominion, in 2016 and in 2018.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>My first foray in Virgina came in 2016, on a road trip from Chicago to Disney World.\u00a0 Arriving about fifteen hours behind schedule, we finally managed to get to Jeff\u2019s apartment in beautiful Roanoke.\u00a0 After schlepping our luggage up to the third floor, it was time to relax and take in all the sights Virginia had to offer.\u00a0 And what it had to offer was a White Sox spring training game on the MLB Network and the first four episodes of the recently released Daredevil<\/em> season 2 on Netflix.\u00a0 A take-out Chinese dinner was the capper on the day, after which we retreated to different rooms and called it a day.<\/p>\n

Things got off to an early start, for me at least, as I found Saturday night\u2019s dinner not agreeing with me very well.\u00a0\u00a0When I woke up for real on Sunday morning, Jeff had been out to the market and had returned with bagels and other items and fresh coffee being brewed.\u00a0 Eventually, Val woke up and the three of us spent the morning eating breakfast and watching the Sunday morning news shows.<\/p>\n

After taking in a fifth episode of the new season of Daredevil<\/em>, we decided to head out on the second leg of the trip, with Disney World our next destination.\u00a0 Our first stop was at the Wendy\u2019s in Ridgeway, Virginia, about an hour into the trip.\u00a0 While certain people tried to once again get their bearings, I went in and bought lunch for both Jeff and myself.\u00a0 Val expressed interest in some curly fries, perhaps intrigued by the previous day\u2019s stop at Arby\u2019s, but the Hardee\u2019s across the street did not offer them and there was no Arby\u2019s in sight.\u00a0 Over Val\u2019s objections, Jeff vowed to stop at the next Arby\u2019s we found to get her those curly fries, but we oddly did not see one for the rest of the day.<\/p>\n

\"\"I made my second trip to Virginia in late July of 2018 to celebrate Jeff\u2019s 50th birthday.\u00a0 The trip started Thursday night after work, when Val and I caught a flight to Roanoke.\u00a0 The three of us worked remotely on Friday before heading out for dinner and to see the sights of Roanoke, which basically was The Roanoke Star and a grocery store.\u00a0 Saturday, we headed out early to hike up Catawba Mountain to McAfee Knob.\u00a0 With an elevation of 3,197 feet and a trail distance of approximately 4.4 miles, McAfee Knob is one of the highlights of the Appalachian Trail.\u00a0 It took quite an effort on my part, and probably more time than we were planning, but the views from the top, not to mention the satisfaction of one of my traveling companions, were worth it.\u00a0 The trip back down was a bit easier, thanks to a fire road, but a small stumble by yours truly certainly made things interesting.\u00a0 Sunday was spent relaxing and recovering from the strain of the previous day, until it was time to head back to the airport and fly home.<\/p>\n

Will I return?\u00a0 One day, I’d imagine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over my 48 years, I\u2019ve done my fair share of travelling across these United States.\u00a0 I thought it would be an interesting experiment go look back at those trips to each of the 31 states I have visited (62% isn\u2019t bad, is it?) and see if, and when, I may be returning.\u00a0 Working in alphabetical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3268],"tags":[8062,3342,8061,2527,3374,10561,4641,7999,1554,1642,6582,6609,49,551],"class_list":["post-20024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-appalachian-trail","tag-arbys","tag-catawba-mountain","tag-daredevil","tag-disney-world","tag-hardees","tag-jeff","tag-mcafee-knob","tag-mlb-network","tag-netflix","tag-val","tag-wendys","tag-white-sox","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20024"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20106,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20024\/revisions\/20106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}