We drove from Luray to Charlottesville. It was a nice, slow, 2 hour ride all the way down US 340, Stonewall Jackson Memorial Highway. We're staying at a KOA in Keene, VA which is about 12 miles outside of Charlottesville. It is a very nice KOA, run by a nice young couple... but it is very rural with no cell service and WiFi is through HughesNet and there is nothing nice to say about satellite internet.
We went to the Walton's Mountain Museum where they had replicas of John-Boy's room, the kitchen, the living room, Ike Godsey's General Store, and the Baldwin Sisters "Recipe Room". The General Store was also the gift shop. It was a very corny stop but as a fan of the show, it was well worth the $7 entry.
Then Cass had a great idea to the Historic Hatton Ferry... what a ride! We were on back roads, dirt roads again with no cell reception. And the ferry was not really what we were expecting. I think I was expecting more of a historical area based on a historical marker sign that stated:
James A. Brown began operating a store and ferry at this site on rented property in the late 1870s. In 1881 he bought the land from S.P. Gantt at which time the store became a stop on the Richmond and Alleghany Railroad. Two years later, Brown was authorized to open a post office in his store, which was named Hatton for the young federal postal officer who signed the authorizing documents. The ferry is one of the only two poled ferries still functioning in the continental United States.
Instead we found an area full of tubers, canoes and beer drinkers.
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