Virginia vacation: final day

Our adventure continued as we headed further south on I-81 to Bristol, TN.  The kids asked why we would come this way.

As we pulled into the famous race track parking lot the kids asked again why we were stopping.

There was no race this day but is a track that Cari and I always wanted to see in person.  Inside the gift shop the cashier told us the gate was open and we were welcome to go in and see the track!

We would have signed up for a track tour but they were preparing for a test this day and couldn't get us onto the track.   Next time we'll go back for a race!

On our final few hours of vacation we saw some beautiful scenes along I-26 just North of Asheville, NC.

 When we stopped at a scenic overlook to get this shot of I-26 the kids couldn't understand why we would stop this close to home.

They were done with vacation.

Our partly unplanned trip through an area we had never visited before was a success.  We had a rough idea of where we were headed when we left the house and as we went we discovered new places to see.  We never felt hurried to be at a place or to stop at a specific hotel.  We stopped for a sit down restaurant when we felt like it.

This is vacation done right.