Days 103-104: For more than three months we only got rain on our travel days, but now we finally entered a nine-day stretch of damp and dreary weather. While visiting Paul’s second cousin Cindy and her husband Paul in Charlottesville, we resolved to meet next summer in New England, along with Cindy’s two brothers, to share memories, photos, and genealogical notes on our Lowry and Martine family heritage. Among other delectables served to us by Cindy and Paul were paw paws from their paw-paw patch (very tasty!).
Abby & Payam met us at Cindy & Paul’s, and on the way from Charlottesville to D.C. the four of us hiked up Humpback Rocks along the Blue Ridge Parkway and looped back to the car on a short section of the Appalachian Trail. On this misty and foggy day, the woods were peaceful, and we occasionally glimpsed some interesting gnarled trees among the tall hardwoods.
