Part 1: Journey to Rockbridge County Our latest adventure took us to Rockbridge County, Virginia, in Southwest Virginia. I picked up Donna from work at one o’clock Friday afternoon and off we went, Maryland Route 32 west to U.S. Interstate 70 west to Hagerstown, then U.S. Interstate 81 south to our destination 10 miles south of Lexington, Virginia. The four-hour trip wasn’t the easiest, with early-exiting Friday afternoon commuters jamming I-70 and loads of weekend travelers and tractor-trailers, many unable to climb the grades at speed, congesting the two southbound lanes of I-81. So what? The fall foliage, even though we missed the peak colors by a week or two, was spectacular, with the oranges, yellows and red dappling the landscape like an Impressionist painting. For me, even more magical are the mountains (westerners will scoff at this characterization of our relatively puny ranges, but they are majestic enough for me). On I-70 as you approach Frederick, you s