Even after cooling her tires for a couple of months, Tillie started right up and we were off! (at 6:30 a.m. - talk about being anxious to get going!) The morning was cool but John had gotten the heat controls working on his side and the heat fastened open on my side - felt wonderful. Then we began to notice the mesquitoes. It seemed they had organized a tour group to travel south with us. As folks would pass us on the road they would think we were waving when all of a sudden our hand would go splat against the window. Then they probably just thought we were crazy. By the time we stopped for lunch in West Virginia there were more dead bugs on the inside of the windshield than on the outside but the tour group has mostly been eliminated.

Once we were on the road again with a clean windshield and minus the bug distraction, I began to notice my feet were getting warm, then downright hot. It's amazing how well Tillie's heater works when it's 70 degrees outside. Luckily the McCormick farm in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia was both beautiful and had a nice secluded parking lot so John could crawl under the VW and turn OFF that wonderful heater. In case you need to refresh your memory (I did), Cyrus McCormick invented the mechanical grain reaper in 1831 thus changing agriculture forever. According to the brochure it took 90% of the population in 1831 to provide food for our nation, now it takes 2%. Obviously they weren't and still aren't using my gardening techniques.

Then it was on to Foamhenge (someone has actually created a lifesize Stonehenge out of foam). There's nothing more I want to tell you about that. But we did add Virginia to Tillie's "I've been there" map.

Tonight we're camping at (trust me, the campground is much better than the name) Jellystone Park.