First, let me just say that our stay at Pegasus Farm was delightful. And the Forest Festival's Grand Feature Parade was one of the best parades ever.
Here are the owners of Pegasus Farm, Mark and Bonnie:
They are a very interesting couple -- Mark has a band and they used to have a plane, and they tell great stories about their experiences. Their farm is just a peaceful, lovely place to hang out.
Here's Mark with the Zen bus -- don't you love it?
Buddy really enjoyed the farm, which is leash-free for doggies.
Laura sounds like a Munchkin on this video....
After his run, Buddy was very, very tired:
We decided to do it up right and attend the big Grand Feature Parade of the Forest Festival on Saturday. It was fabulous! Check out the mummers and pipers in the videos below. The town also had a great troupe of Toronto motorcycle police, doing rather amazing cycle formation tricks in the street, at pretty high speeds. The parade was over three hours long!! The festival featured a range of food, lumberjack contests and chainsaw carving, the coronation of the Forest Festival queen, a carnival for kids -- it was a big, big deal for a town of just 8,000 people.
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| Buddy chilling at the parade |
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| Special guest, WV Governor Manchin |
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| Just one of the great parade bands |
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| The Toronto motorcycle exhibition team |
Real small-town America at its best.
Those damned brakes again...
The good news was that the parade/festival was a super experience. The bad news is that we still had brake warning lights on in the RV and could not find any service shop to help us out in the area. So we decided that on Monday we would chance traveling on to our next destination, Fancy Gap, VA, in the middle of the Blue Ridge Parkway, despite the brake lights. Brake anxiety again!
It was stressful, to say the least (we did get one episode of burning brake smell), but hey, at one stop along the highway -- basically a quasi-pulloff that Beau selected simply to decompress a bit (things were getting somewhat tense between the Beaudrys) -- we found $50 in bills in the grass! A positive omen? Why not?
After a somewhat frightening six-hour drive (my jaw hurt from all the tension -- at every descent I anticipated a runaway RV), we arrived in Fancy Gap. I had called on the way and found an RV service center to look at the brakes -- again. So first thing in the morning, Beau took off in the beast and soon called to say that the brakes were absolutely fine! The mechanic said the lights were on because the ABS warning light had burned out and that had triggered the other brake light. The mechanic also asserted we could travel cross-country, no worries, with those lights on. He thought our RV was a very fine vehicle, well made, and that our brakes were in great shape. Thank goodness! (We were headed for divorce court: "Beau, slow down, slow down!" Beau: "Stop nagging me! Be quiet -- I am concentrating on downshifting!" On and on it went...for six long hours.)
Anyhoo, we spent today traveling the beautiful Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia, reconciled as a happily married couple once more. Photos from that drive next time...rain is coming! Boo.
Tanks, Panky
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