Shenandoah Mountains




As we drive, there are endless hills with beautiful colors in the fall.

This weekend I went to the Shenandoah Mountains which are absolutely gorgeous. My family and I try to visit friends who live out there 2 or 3 times a year. Our family friends have girl who is about 9 years old now and two twin boys who are in third grade.

I love to visit their family and almost remove myself from society and civilization. I live in a pretty urban place where you can always hear the sounds of buses on the streets and it's noisy, but out here it's so much more quiet.

I also love visiting them out here because the family has a really cool house. There house was transformed from a one room school house in the early 1900s. The basement has a stage on it where the students used to preform, and you can still see the lights hanging from the ceiling that would shine on the actresses and actors. Up stairs they have huge windows reaching from the ceiling to the floor in the dinning room and you can see the endless mountains and green land that stretches beyond the house.

This time we decided to go on a walk.  Apparently this real estate agent had bought a lot of land and had plans to turn it into houses, however with the economy; only one was built. All three kids went into the woods where there was a path parallel to the paved road that went to the end. We walked down the road as the kids followed. We got to the end of the read and below was a beautiful view of the hills and a lake. You could also see part of the Shenandoah River. It was absolutely gorgeous.There were no cars or houses nearby except for the last one at the very end of the road.

I was so glad to have come back here to visit friends and get away from the loudness of where I live for just a few hours. It was nice to see them because we hadn't in a really long time and I liked taking on this new adventure and going for a walk on this empty road.