Kiptopeke, VA to Temperanceville, VA

The state park in Kiptopeke was nice and we woke up amongst the trees. High temperatures were predicted for today as well, so Bill was up and out at dawn.

Then it was pack up and put away any loose items in the little beach house on wheels, get my bad@ss self done up and get ready to go! LOL! Bill called just as I was pulling out of our camp spot to tell me how it was going. It was a tad bit cooler than it has been, so he has been doing well. As I was driving along, I noticed an abandoned school sitting back from the road.

This is the 4th abandoned school we've seen on this trip; some elementary schools but this one a high school. None of them had been repurposed into something else, seems like such a waste of a great building. Route 13 had a nice shoulder but the sections running through the towns had barely anything and that was where the traffic was busiest. It finally petered out to nothing so when Bill called, he had found a back road to ride on. I was headed his way when he called again to say his phone was dying and the cord to the battery (the flask) we had purchased for this purpose was missing. He was going to get back on 13 since he couldn't use his phone for navigation. He would call every few minutes and share what mile marker he was at and hang up. When I was close, he called to say he had pulled over up ahead in a parking lot. Fortunately, when used in very short calls, the phone lasted long enough for me to catch up to him. Without the phone, we would have had no way to find each other. Well, we could have done what we did on the first trip 27 years ago...ask the police to find him! We plugged the phone into the charger in the truck, packed up the bike and headed for our campsite. He had over 54 miles in and told me that he had met a sheriff on the side of the road and shared our story and a New Testament with him and thanked him for the job he does.

Thank-you sir! We drove a few miles to Temperanceville, VA to the Tall Pines Harbor Campground. I was looking through their literature and they have planned events almost every weekend from March to the end of October. They had a beautiful new pool, snack bar and showers with lots of building going on. They were having a cornhole tournament when we arrived and the night was a little noisy but everyone went home on Sunday morning so we had the place practically to ourselves.Bill showed me a picture he had taken of a Statue of Liberty that was alongside the road.

It turned out to be a statue for Liberty tax preparation! LOL! He went outside and took a look at the tires on the camper and that kind of bald one has him concerned. Looks like we might have to pick up a tire tomorrow. Thanks for reading. Oh, I almost forgot! Bill took a video of part of the Great Dismal Swamp to share with you.