The working part of the road trip
August 20 2023, Sunday The Bluegrass Festival finished up last night at 10pm; it was a surprisingly entertaining experience for both of us. We both really enjoyed it and hope to attend another one someday. We had prepped the RV for travel on Saturday afternoon and pulled off our site at Tom Johnson CG at 9am. I had studied potential routes and finally decided to take the I-40 part way to our next destination in Martinsville Virginia. You know we normally avoid interstates especially east of the Mississippi, but there just wasn’t any good alternative. I swear you could be a passenger traveling on any interstate in the eastern half of the country, fall asleep then wake up on an interstate in another state and you wouldn’t know the difference. Marion NC to Martinsville VA It was Sunday so at least the road wasn’t congested; we had smooth sailing all the way to our exit onto Hwy 421. This is still mostly limited access with on/off ramps but old school urban expressway. It kind of reminds