After a year of planning, we were off this morning around 9am for our cross country trip. Today’s segment was from home to Christiansburg, VA. So why Christiansburg? The answer is simple. It is halfway from home to Nashville. We have made this trip a dozen times or more in the past and have stayed in Christiansburg a few times. This time, however, things were totally different. We haven’t driven to Tennessee in about 20 years and everything has changed since then. There is a new Hampton Inn at a different exit. I have to say it is a definite improvement. This is a nice hotel with good workout center and pool, which we took advantage of.
In terms of sightseeing, we didn’t have anything on the list as we have been here so frequently. Driving down I-81, you of course get a great view of the Blue Ridge mountains, which were exceptionally blue today. There was a little bit of haze in the air and on a bright sunny day it makes the mountains even bluer than normal.
For dinner, we found a listing for a Greek restaurant in Blacksburg which was about 10 minutes away. The food was very good and best of all it was right by Virginia Tech’s (nicknamed the Hokies) campus. After dinner we walked around the campus and were amazed by the size (30,000 students) and beauty of the campus. There is a large central open space called Drill Field which is surrounded by stone classroom buildings which seem both old and new at the same time.
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