Elkins solo bikeride

I took a morning bike ride out on the rail to trail to the town of Parsons. The horses in the barn are part of the pretty scenery the money picture is what I scrounged out of my bicycle bag since I forgot my wallet I didn't prepare for the ride so I hadn't eaten and it was about 22 miles one way so I needed a snack in Parsons and barely scrounged enough change the locomotive picture is of the train they bring into town each Saturday that train takes tours around the area the fish Raceway is a fish hatchery 15 miles from town raising trout even golden trout the water is disgusting  however.

the map of our trip so far

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Cajun week Augusta grand finale

These guys were tearing it up this was a wonderful way to finish the week we love the dancing we love the music we're headed for blackpot at Louisiana  at the end of October we can't wait

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Elkins West Virginia

We made it to Elkins and the first thing we did was go to Davis Elkins college which holds the Augusta heritage Music Center we were able to tour some of the Big Mansion buildings you can see great rooms great furniture the little buttons are to turn on lights nice would work the barber chair was actually in Galax Virginia and reminded us of Martha getting her hair cut at Floyds in Mount Airy this building is still in use and many of the music situations that happen at Augusta happen right in this building big kitchen nice porch to dine on very very cool place

Cajun two step Augusta Sunday night dance

Martha and I are trying hard to learn this type of two step it is way fun

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Cajun old time country week Augusta

Sunday night dance had lots of great singing this is the wife of Joe L Savo you can also see Bill Kirchin sadly Tracy schwartz struggled on the fiddle the lady singing actually plays a wonderful country or Cajun fiddle

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Cajun week at Augusta Sunday night dance

The steel player seems like he's a hundred years old bill Kirchen was also on the stage Tracy Schwartz lots of cool people at Cajun week

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Dare to be square Beverly West Virginia

This was a flat footing workshop held on a little bridge at dare to be square

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Galax and Fries (freeze)

The drive from Blacksburg to Galax is a nice drive thru the mountain country but you better pay attention and stay on normal roads or you will be on a gravel road high in the mountains of who knows where we went straight to fries from Galax which is just down the hill to the New River in order to take part in the Thursday night jam session lots of great musicians have come from this area and the jam session has gone on for probably 50 years cool old cars had come to town for a galax event but they look great in front of the old buildings. We will show industrial. pictures later of this little town on the New River where big factories had a hundred of 10 year old kids working in the mills

Blue Ridge Parkway Music Center

Aaron Marshall is the director of this center and it is a first class display she schedules all of the activities and programs great place to visit can't imagine missing it

Virginia Kentucky Tennessee convergence spot

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Bristol Tennessee standing on Stateline Street the right hand side is Tennessee the left hand side of the street is Virginia

Pretty historical spot literally walking down the street in Virginia see something interesting across the street and walk into Tennessee the dotted line on the street is the actual state boundary

Cumberland Gap trail and the Daniel Boone wilderness trail near the town of Cumberland Gap

One of the coolest things of the whole trip countless settlers came through this very trail how cool is that

More Harlan Kentucky

The picture of the red things on the shelf is one shelf in a pawn shop of miners battery pack lights for coal mining the other pictures are of the historical sign at the courthouse and just Harlan in general narrow narrow streets it does have a sprawling small section about a mile from this part of town with Walmart and everything else