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2/10/14 West Virginia

As playing a round of golf in every state is on Tom's bucket list, we decided to do an overnighter in Front Royal, Virginia. We left Al our 5th wheel at Cherry Hill RV Park, Maryland as it was about an hour and a half to West Virginia and another hour to Front Royal, Virginia. It would have been too much of a drive to play 18 holes of golf and then drive back to Cherry Hill.

Golfing at Locust Hill Golf Club in West Virginia, this golf club had a few remnant buildings of the Civil War dotted around the course and plaques commemorating battles that had been fought.

Betty in full flight on an island tee box, she had to hit about 100 yards across the water and put it on the green.

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Virginia turned out its autumn colours for us..glorious rich colours.

We've always wanted to try a Cracker Barrel Old Country Store and Restaurant so on the morning of our departure from Front Royal we breakfasted there. What a plethora of knick knacks, biscuits, sweets,gifts, beautiful winter wraps etc.

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Cracker Barrel - I ordered a large breakfast of pancakes, two eggs and bacon which was slow in in arriving and as a result they did not charge me for it - now that is good customer service.

The Shenandoah Valley of West Virginia and taken from the Blue Ridge Mountains is where many Civil War confrontations took place between the Blues and the Greys.

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Tom had checked on the net and found that our best chance of seeing the fall colours was in the Shenandoah Valley, up on the Blue Ridge Mountains. Rain was forecast for that day - the sunny weather seen here at the Visitor's Centre was short lived.

A pending storm coming up the valley which hit us within minutes and reduced our visibility to only feet and given the winding road along the mountain ridge made it somewhat dangerous.

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The picture doesn't do it justice but the drive up the mountain range was like a scene from a calendar...beautiful gold, bronze and vermilion coloured trees lined both sides of the road.