This is new travel for us: we have been traveling by RV for seven years. Our first test of our new car travel life style is to just park on the street in the quaint little town of Warrenton, VA and have lunch at a sidewalk cafe…easy peasy! Although there are many ways to get from here to Uniontown, PA, Deb has requested that we take shortest, straightest route. Google maps is only showing winding roads to get there but the GPS in the Lexus is showing only straight interstates (of course it would, it’s her car!).
When we get to the inn, there is a sign at the registration desk that gives the phone number of the innkeeper. Nancy, the innkeeper, answers the phone and chastises me for not knowing the name of my room (it was on the confirmation e-mail!). With detailed instructions on where she would meet me, which I vaguely remembered, we headed out to find our room. This was sort of like an escape room adventure. As we neared some cabins at one end of the property, a man posing as a landscaper said “no, no, those are not it, you have to go over there.” Once we got to the pavilion area, a woman posing as a a guest said “Nancy went in that door.” In exasperation, Nancy appeared and redirected us once again to the correct door which had a combination lock that was encoded in the receipt she gave us along with a key which had fob with a floral pattern that we had to match with door to the room.
A check of é mail revealed that the third destination of our trip, Longwood Gardens, had to close because of an accident with a fuel spill. During dinner, we made a tactical decision to leave the gardens for another day and instead spend the last night in the Shenendoahs. We booked the last room at the Big Meadow Lodge while sitting at the table in a wonderful Italian restaurant waiting for our entrees.
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