Ride to Graves Mountain

Great ride with my wife to Graves Mountain for the annual Apple Fest (http://www.gravesmountain.com/appleharvest.htm) with Johnny and Pam this Saturday. A little cool in the morning but warmed up very nice for the afternoon as well as during the visit at the Apple Festival. We stopped at a neat little coffee shop on the way up, a "Key West style" coffee house near Palmyra, VA. This brought back some memories of our trip together to the real Key West in June!

About half way, so the break was welcome to warm up to some hot coffee. Johnny even took the opportunity to relax in the hammock!





We took all two lane roads and what a great ride it was. The leaf color seems to be really late in Virginia this year. Leaf color was still very spotty. Looks like this coming weekend will be the peak for at least east of the Blue Ridge. The Apple Festival was fun with some great food!

 The Brunswick stew and BBQ was very good. Tried to save room for some Graves Mountain apple covered funnel cake, but no one could do it. Johnny did have a piece of apple pie though and we brought back some caramel kettle korn!!


A lot of motorcycles there for the third weekend of the Festival. We plan to make this an annual event in the future. Great time, great ride, beautiful day, good food and great company!