Road Trip Honeymoon

Hours of Driving to National Parks for our Road Trip Honeymoon!

Which means more time for knitting for me!

Chris and I recently got back from our road trip honeymoon, and while it feels like there is so much to do and to dig out from underneath (you know like real life stuff…paying bills, cleaning the house, sending umpteen thank you cards, etc.) I wanted to take a moment just to tell you about our fantastic fiber filled honeymoon!

We didn’t do the typical wedding so why would our honeymoon be something ordinary? We piled our stuff in the Tacoma, loaded the dog and hopped in for a long drive!

And of course I brought one of my latest projects to keep my hands busy when it wasn’t my turn to drive on the road trip honeymoon.

After much hemming and hawing over where we should go, we decided upon two places, one place to break up the drive and one as our final destination.  On Monday, after saying goodbye to family members, we drove a very scenic drive down to Shenandoah National Park in the picturesque Virginia.  On the way down, we stopped in the northern end of the park and did a day hike – which the dog loved so much he was running around like a mad man.  Literally there was one part where I thought he was going to go over a cliff.  But he survived.  And we finished our drive down to an airBnB in Wintergreen Ski Resort.

The resort and place was nice and we had a great time, until the second day.  We stopped at a sandwich shop that was recommended to us – and I wouldn’t know it until later that night, but I got food poisoning.  So we took a beautiful hike down through a gorge to see a waterfall that looked like something out of the movie The Last of the Mohicans (this was on repeat at our cabin as a kid).  Again, the dog kept trying to take a header towards the waterfall, because he’s a lab and loves water (just not to swim…so clearly a waterfall makes a lot of sense).  Thank God for our Dog Plus Bone leash which gave him enough room but didn’t let him get too much of a running start.

The hikes were beautiful, if a little chilly, but that only made me want to get back and knit a bit more!  It was the perfect relaxing start to the honeymoon…well that is, until I got food poisoning and didn’t want to do anything but curl up in a ball.