Road Trip (Part .5 of ?)

Let's back up to the first day of our road trip.  We spent the whole day driving through beautiful country in Tennessee and Virginia.

We made a stop (lunch? gas?) next door to this place called Pal's.

Hindsight is telling me that we missed out by not eating lunch here.

We stayed at the Hotel Strasburg in Strasburg, Virginia.  I had found favorable reviews for it on Trip Advisor and booked one of their cheapest rooms ahead of time.  We had to climb a few sets of narrow creaky steps to get to our room. We felt like we were staying in our grandma's attic - the kind of room where the tiny bathroom was an afterthought, carved out of a nook in the room.  The Victorian-esque room included white wicker furniture and quilts made from 70s panel fabric.  It gave us lots to talk and laugh about after spending the whole day together in the car.

These aged stone lions stood guard at the front door.  They seemed out of place.

Here's an artsy photo of a bench that Howard took.  He knows that I love rusty metal.  It's fun to watch his photographic skills and composition change and improve over the years.

We drove around the town for a bit in search of other inspiring architecture, like this church building.  I liked the composition of this photo.  I can't imagine the skill and planning that it would take to make a curved brick wall.

Howard noticed this license plate in front of us and scrambled to get his camera out of the case.  I stepped on the gas in hot pursuit of this vehicle.  With my supreme driving abilities and his fancy camera and photographic skills, he was able to get a pretty good shot.  It's not every day that you find your name on someone's vanity plate!