2011-06 Ft Chiswell, VA

After leaving Solitude Pointe, we traveled about 80 miles over to Gaffney, SC and had our motorhome serviced at the Freightliner Service Center.  We highly recommend this location for service to a Freightliner motorhome chassis.  We stayed several days and enjoyed meeting and spending time with several very nice RVers.  Then we traveled up to Ft Chiswell RV Park.  It is a very convenient stop where I-77 intersects I-81 in southern Virginia.

We only intended to stay 2 nights, but our rear AC stopped working.  We were fortunate to find a skilled mobile RV repairman.  However he had to order parts late on a Thursday, and they did not arrive until late the following Tuesday.  So we changed our plans and stayed 9 days rather than 2. It all worked out fine since we met several more nice people and enjoyed touring the area.

One of the highlights was an evening at the Wohlfafrt Dinner Theater in nearby Wytheville, VA where we were joined by our neighbor and new friend John Williams from Georgia.  The dinner show was a musical they had developed called "American Bandstand".  We enjoyed hearing lots of 50's and 60's music.  We have plans to stop at Ft Chiswell on our return journey and hope to go see another presentation by this talented group of young performers.

The countryside around Wytheville is really beautiful.   Here are some of the photos we took on several long rides in the area.  (The first photo at the top of the page was taken in the campground parking lot.)

One of our drives took us to Big Walker Overlook.   It is at an old country store that is a bit of a "tourist trap".  It sits at the top of a ridge and has a tall observation tower.  We did not climb the metal tower because we could hear thunder in the distance, but the views were still very nice from either side of the ridge.

 There were three pretty Luna Moths on the side of the wall just over the entrance to the old store.  Here is one of them:

We stopped in Wytheville for lunch at the "The Old Log House 1776 Restaurant".  As the name implies it is an old historic 2 story log house.  On the outside it looks like it is about to fall down and it is pretty rustic on the inside.

We had a very good lunch.  While it was being prepared we wandered around the garden and gift shop out back and the waitress came to find us when our meal was ready.

We had a good time at the restaurant and will go back when we return later this year.  We also enjoyed visiting a couple of gift shops just down the street and there are more in the area we want to see when we return.