Thursday 3rd June, Natural Bridge, - Statesville North Carolina

Hi it’s the animal spotter Lauren who is back in business. Today we went to natural bridge and a wax museum. So off we went to the wax museum da da dada and we are there. We went into the Wax Museum and there were lots of wax people staring at you, Olivia thought it was a bit spooky. It also shows you how they make the wax people. After we walked to the natural bridge which is a big rock that we went under and hoping it won’t fall on us, we walked on to the Monacan Indians village where they showed us what it would be like to live like them. We went into their tent house thing and it was all smokey at the top. We carried on with the walk and I put my hand on a rock wall…. the animal hunter is back there was a snake! SNAKE SNAKE SNAKE EKKK!!!! I nearly touched the snake. We carried on and came to the end to a waterfall and started to walk back. We went past the snaked again, the Indians tent, the rock and to the end. Now Thomas found a water snake in the river next to us. We got back to the rv and had a big ice block it’s so hot. By the animal spotter Lauren

Hi Its Thomas, here to talk about the Natural Bridge..The Natural Bridge is like a rock that we walked under. We then went for a walk to a small water fall that is as tall as the Niagara Falls, well I think it is? But it’s not very wide. Then we saw an old Indian lady and man talking about how it was like 300 years ago. They talked about Virginia Native Americans in the authentic Monacan Village.

The Blue Ridge Parkway is a high altitude National Park that stretches for 469 miles; it’s a beautiful drive with lots of stop off picnic rest area with awesome panoramic views. The road follows the highest ridges from Shenandoah to the Great Smokey Mountains which includes the Appalachian Mountain ranges, altitude gets as high as 6000 feet (mostly we were between 3 – 4000 ft) Getting onto the road is trickier than it sounds as it is not particularly well signposted. We joined it shortly after the Natural Bridge and only did about 3 hours worth, as beautiful as it was it was… same and same again around every windy corner and the RV wasn’t quite the right vehicle for such a narrow windy road now a motorbike would be a completely different story. There’s not one town or petrol station on the entire stretch. Then we came across an accident scene (Fatal I think?) I’ve never seen so many cops, Fireman, National Park Dudes all in one place (New York might be the exception) so we decided to head back to civilization again. A couple of wiggly woggly “C” roads and off we went again on an Interstate in the direction of Charlotte North Carolina. NOTE: Thursday 3rd & Friday 4th photos were unfortunately deleted Photos are from the internet.