On the road to Southern Virginian

The Trip To Southern Viginia

We had so much fun driving from Charlottesville to Roanoke and stopping at places along the way such as Bedford, Lexington, Poplar Forest and Roanoke.   We laughed at a place called the Pink Cadillac Diner and became most somber at the D- Day Memorial.

Bedford, Va.  suffered the highest per capita number of deaths during the  Normandy Invasion of any city in the U.S. To honor the sacrifice of its sons, it built the National  D-Day Memorial.

It not only honors its own sons  but lists the names of the 4,413 US and Allied soldiers who died in the invasion.

https://www.dday.org

We visited a number of antique stores in the area, some were even called "salvage" stores.

Her are some of the items on sale.

I guess not all customers were honest . Thus the need for high tech security.

Everyone knows  Jefferson's home, Monticello .  But how many know about his home in Poplar Forest?  He said Monticello was for entertaining but Poplar Forest was for relaxing.

Learn more about Poplar Forest:    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poplar_Forest

Everything Jefferson built was classy.  Here is a lovely  brick structure  . It is an outhouse

This is the Roanoke City Market. Now a collection of small stores and shops.

This was the center of the city as far as we could tell.   Many of the buildings were red brick. None were taller than the building on the right.

The lovely red brick, once again.

We showed up hungry one Sunday at the Roanoker hoping the line would not be too long.   We were seated in less than ten minutes. The Roanoker had a huge area, rooms off rooms, to accommodate people.  It also had a "booths only" lay out.  No problem.  I prefer a booth to a table.






Gosh, here again we find the customers are less than honest. What kind of an area had we come to?

 Just kidding.  In point of fact, we had visited an area that had old time charm and friendly, well meaning people.