Waking up in Martinsburg, WV, we head down
to Charlottesville, VA
This is the home of Monticello of Thomas Jefferson fame
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Waking up in Martinsburg, WV, we head down |
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| Martinsburg, WV to Orange, VA - 168 miles |
Martinsburg, WV is the seat of
Berkeley County
so stopped by
Berkeley County Courthouse for a county "B" |
Then on to the road. It was raining. First time on this
trip. Not real huge drops, but plenty wet.
 It quickly became the standard three level visibility challenge: Water streaming up the windshield, down the back of the windshield, and up the face mask. In Virginia, the county lines are marked with the county you are entering and also the one you are leaving  California counties never cooperate enough to do something similar |
Grove`s Winchester Harley-Davidson
is in
Winchester, VA
 It is located in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountain area |
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Turned off in
Harrisonburg
about lunch time. It is a small town, old, looking very blue
collar I spotted a little cafe with a sign in the window "Hippies use side door" Obviously very red neck, yes? 
 Well, no. It is the opposite. A very eclectic, liberal, employee owned place with locally supplied, good, wholesome food tending toward vegetarian 
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Stopped by the
Rockingham County Administration Center
for an "R" county |
The rain let up, but the sky was still
threatening and it became warmer.
 Staunton, VA is pronounced Stan-ton we were told by a local 
 We were in the heart of the Shenandoah Valley so the dealer name is Shenandoah Harley-Davidson of Staunton This is a large dealership with a big deck outside that has a fabulous view 
 A bunch of fellows were hanging out in front just passing the time An old timer took the time to try to tell us the best routes to take 
 Proud of their local landscape, they shared it on the way to the rest rooms |
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On to
Charlottesville, VA where there are two
things of note: The University of Virginia established by Thomas Jefferson and Monticello Thomas Jefferson's home 
 Along the way, there were about eight busses all the same Must have been a lot of people going somewhere 
 We toured Moticello and it turned out to be terrific They do not allow photos inside, but the grounds were fair game and beautiful 
 The back lawn, the dome on the rear, the kitchen, and the parking lot 
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Moticello closes at 6:00 and we still had a lot of daylight left so we headed on down the road toward Richmond. We stopped in Orange, VA. for the night |
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