Before we left the last stop at Galax, we found out that the lady I was talking about that went to the hospital had passed away last night.
Remember me talking about Galax Leaves here is a picture of them.
While driving this northern part of the parkway, it's not as scenic as the lower part, we passed fields of hay being cut and baled, you don't see the mountain ranges as much and the road is not as hilly and curvy. We had stopped at an old cabin where a lady was a midwife, she had delivered 1000's of baby after the age of 50, and never lost a child or mother of her own fault, she delivered her last child in 1939 at the age of 102, the year she died. She had 23 children of her own, but none survived past infancy.
After arriving at the National Park, Peak of Otter, it took quite a while for us all to get parked, since we didn't have reservations, we couldn't park in any reserved sites, which we did park in one, they didn't tell us until later, we had to move after getting setup. We did have a cookout with hamburgers and everyone brought a dish to share, plenty of food. We have no hookups so it was quite warm overnight.
Tuesday, June 17
We pulled out for a reserved tour about 8:30, went to The National D-Day Memorial, really great. Among the hundreds of thousands massed off the shores of Normandy on the morning of June 6,1944 were 44 soldiers, sailors, and airmen from the town and county of Bedford Virginia. For Bedford, the result was especially devastating. In comparison with 1940's population, Bedford suffered the nations severest per capita D-Day loss, a total of 20 fatalities, a somber distinction for this rural Virginia community. For that reason, Congress approved plans for the National D-Day Memorial to be placed in Bedford, Virigina.
Ken and I did a quick tour on our own, last night he noticed blood in the shower, his 4th toe cracked open on the bottom. We left and went to the emergency room at the local hospital, we were there for 3 hrs. and he got 4 stitches, must keep wrapped for two days and get to see doctor when home. We also had to get an antibiotic for him.
We had missed the second tour of Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest, Jefferson and his wife inherited this plantation in 1773 from her father.
After everyone returned after a long HOT day of touring, we had different pies and ice cream for a social, almost got chased from rain, but it didn't rain very long, so we relaxed and just sat around and talked, until just before dusk.
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